Asking for it
By: Louise O'Neill
Publisher: riverrun; Quercus Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781848664173; 9781784295868; 9781784293208; 9781848668201
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Young adult fiction; Young women; Juvenile fiction; Sexual consent; Rape; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "Not suitable for younger readers contains strong language and explicit scenes"--Back cover.

YA Book Prize Nominee, 2016

Michael L. Printz Honor, 2017