Only Ever Yours

Release Date: 2 July

Author: Louise O’Neill Publisher: Quercus Sixteen- year- old Freida has a testing time of it in this Young Adult book, which is set in a future where genetic engineering has helped ensure that only male babies are born; females are designed in laboratories and schooled to be the perfect willing, subservient complement to men. We said: “Compelling writing and a brutal conclusion mean this only- too- real dystopia grips from beginning to end.”