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‘An electrifying debut’ Harpers Bazaar

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‘If you’re looking for a wildcard read this summer, this is definitely a contender’ Daily Mail

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‘Not since Lolita’s Humbert Humbert has a narrator been as unreliable as Leif, and as with reading Nabokov’s masterpiece, the experience of reading Oola is one which will leave the reader pondering questions about love, desire and possession long after the last page has been turned’ Nylon

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‘An electric new take on a classic theme; it lingers in that sinister space where love edges towards obsession. In prose that’s as beautiful as it is dizzyingly smart, Oola is a penetrating exploration of desire, privilege and its victims’ AnOther Magazine

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‘I fell hard for Oola. A gloriously labyrinthine love story, packing major verve and form. The prose is satisfyingly rich and thick, and often left me thunderstruck. It's the kind of book you want to linger in and never leave; the kind of book that DOES things to you. Poetic, inspiring, just wow. In short: I adored it’ Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals

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‘A dark, woozy, gorgeously articulate portrait of love, privilege and obsession by a frank, clear and exciting new voice’ Kirstin Innes, author of Fishnet

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‘I wish “eerily beautiful” weren’t a cliché, because it perfectly describes this debut’ Teddy Wayne, author of Loner

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‘Every now and then, I come across a voice that sounds like no one else, a cadence and vocabulary so specific that it feels like the beginning of a new genre…devilishly dark and achingly tender. This debut is the beginning of a career I hope to watch for decades to come’ Rachel Syme

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‘[A] twisted debut, testing the boundaries between love, obsession, and identity… A dreamy and provocative exploration of sex, privilege, and self-discovery’ Kirkus Reviews

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‘Her searching high beams on privilege’s victims and beneficiaries, the fluidity of gender & love’s desire to possess reflect Newell’s obvious talent for observation and care with words’ Booklist

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