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Genre: Fiction/YA
Synopsis: It's the beginning of
the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years
old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone
is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on
the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she
doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But
everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in
explicit detail, what happened to Emma that night. But sometimes people
don't want to believe what is right in front of them, especially when
the truth concerns the town's heroes...
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| ★★★★★ |
Genre: Young Adult/Dystopian
Synopsis: In a world in which
baby girls are no longer born naturally, women are bred in schools,
trained in the arts of pleasing men until they are ready for the outside
world. At graduation, the most highly rated girls become “companions”,
permitted to live with their husbands and breed sons until they are no
longer useful. For the girls left behind, the future – as a concubine or a teacher – is grim. Best
friends Freida and Isabel are sure they’ll be chosen as companions – but as the intensity of final year takes hold, Isabel does the unthinkable and starts to put on weight. .. And then, into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. Freida must fight for her future – even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known. . .
