** A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ** ' Lord of the Flies meets Love Island - dark thrilling and
delightfully twisted' LOUISE O'NEILL 'So gripping and propulsive that it beats reality TV at
its own game. Why watch TV when Aisling Rawle does it better?' TORREY PETERS 'THIS is the book
to read this summer... 10 out of 10' CECELIA AHERN
------------------------------------------------------- You wake up in a compound in the middle
of the desert along with nine other women. All of you are young all beautiful all keen to
escape the grinding poverty political unrest and environmental catastrophe of the outside
world. You realise that cameras are tracking your every move broadcasting to millions of
reality TV fans. Soon ten men will arrive on foot - if they all survive the journey. What will
you have to do to win? And what happens to the losers? The Compound is an addictive literary
satire on modern excess: it holds a twisted mirror up to our obsession with winning losing and
above all watching. ------------------------------------------------------- READERS ARE
GRIPPED 'THE must read hot book of summer 2025!' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Ok I seriously loved this. The story is
so addictive. There are sudden twists simmering uneasiness and a wholly fitting ending that
has stayed with me since I finished reading it' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Deliciously dark this was a real page
turner that I couldn't wait to get back to each night' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'There aren't many books that I
would want to read twice but this is one of them' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'This was sold to me as Love Island
meets Big Brother meets Survivor and oh my gosh it didn't disappoint!' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Fans of Black
Mirror and The Hunger Games will find The Compound both thought-provoking and disturbingly
relevant' ¿¿¿¿ 'A fun beach read perfect for the summer' ¿¿¿¿¿ 'I absolutely inhaled this.
What a read. Materialism wealth love... Wow. So original and well written' ¿¿¿¿¿
