COMP CLOSED: WIN ‘Idol’ by Louise O’Neill

‘Follow your heart and speak your truth…'

This week’s giveaway book is from a standout voice in fiction, Louise O’Neill – author of Asking For It and After the Silence. Her latest is Idol, a riveting, compulsive and bold novel that asks how well we can ever really know those whose carefully curated profiles we follow online – and the secrets they hide. We have three copies to be won.

‘You put yourself on that pedestal, Samantha. You only have yourself to blame.'

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?

“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

This week, to win a copy, describe YOUR LIFE right now like a social media influencer would – in one “hashtag” (and explain why) – e.g. “#hotmess – because I can never find anything” or “#fearless – because I just jumped out of a plane last weekend” etc. Our three favourite entries will win a copy of this book.

Entries close midday Monday 23 May 2022, Sydney/Melbourne time.

THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED. THANKS FOR YOUR ENTRIES! WINNERS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL AND ANNOUNCED IN OUR NEWSLETTER.