IDOL is fresh glamorous and surprising taking an issue we all care about and with a deft
twist recalibrating our position. It dazzles us before revealing the darkness at its heart.
Louise O'Neill is not afraid to take on a taboo but somehow always makes it utterly compelling.
This is such an exciting book.' Marian Keyes 'Follow your heart and speak your truth.' For
Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's everything they want to be. She's an oracle
telling them how to live their lives how to be happy how to find and honour their 'truth'.
And her career is booming: she's just hit three million followers her new book Chaste has gone
straight to the top of the bestseller lists and she's appearing at sell-out events. Determined
to speak her truth and bare all to her adoring fans she's written an essay about her sexual
awakening as a teenager with her female best friend Lisa. She's never told a soul but now
she's telling the world. The essay goes viral. But then - years since they last spoke - Lisa
gets in touch to say that she doesn't remember it that way at all. Her memory of that night is
far darker. It's Sam's word against Lisa's - so who gets to tell the story? Whose 'truth' is
really a lie? 'You put yourself on that pedestal Samantha. You only have yourself to blame.
