'Unflinching clever and completely riveting' FABULOUS'Fresh glamorous surprising' MARIAN
KEYES'Darkly delicious' ELIZABETH DAY'Compulsive brilliant' ABIGAIL DEAN'Utterly gripping and
unsettling' LUCY FOLEY'An absolute page turner addictive' CECILIA AHERN ****** '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.' Riveting compulsive and bold IDOL interrogates our
relationship with our heroes and explores the world of online influencers asking how well we
can ever really know those whose carefully curated profiles we follow online. And it asks us to
consider how two memories of the same event can differ and how effortlessly we choose which
stories to believe.
