‘She writes with a scalpel.' Jeanette Winterson

‘Brilliant, harrowing’ Observer

Does it matter if you can't remember? A novel about betrayal and consent, truth and denial, in the age of the smartphone it is a must-read for all teenagers

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 . . .

Louise O'Neill has won The Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award, the inaugural Bookseller Young Adult Prize, the Children's Books Ireland Eilis Dillon Awards and BGE Irish Book Award's Book of the Year 2015