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Oligarchy

By: Scarlett Thomas
Narrated by: Scarlett Thomas
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Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomas' fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure. When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl boarding school, she finds herself thrown into a world of fierce pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and the world of the school gets ever darker and even weirder.

Scarlett Thomas' first adult fiction since 2015 is a major return. Wildly frank, funny and full of humanity, Oligarchy reminds us how insightful, vulnerable, brilliant and misunderstood teenagers are, never more so than now.

©2019 Scarlett Thomas (P)2019 Canongate Books Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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I've read a lot of books by Scarlett Thomas and this is very different but utterly riveting.

Unusual departure

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Scarlett Thomas is one of my favourite writers and this is certainly a well written book. But if I’d leafed through it in a shop I wouldn’t have bought it. There’s some unintended irony in the deliberately ironic description of supposedly ‘anti anorexia’ talks as undercover promotion of eating disorders when the book itself is doing that - long beautifully written descriptions of the means and ends of anorexia in 15 year old girls. I found it troubling to read and didn’t think there was enough substance to offset that much revelling in the details of teenage starvation. This might be an old fashioned, moralistic take, but I don’t think this book adds anything to life or the world, it’s just a literary equivalent of scrolling through the darker corners of pro ana instagram.

Wouldn’t read again

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read by the author, who I'd have expected to put feeling into her characters, but it was read without expression. And the story was just ridiculous, over done and unbelievable.

A pile of tripe

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