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WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2021

The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper – soon to be a major Netflix series.

It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. What did that mean?

Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day.

As she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her ‘teenage dream’ is in sight.

But when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever.

Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along?

This wise, warm and witty story of identity and self-acceptance sees Alice Oseman on towering form as Georgia and her friends discover that true love isn’t limited to romance.

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369 pages
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HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
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9 July 2020
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Praise for SOLITAIRE:

“The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age” The Times

“The most honest and authentic account of modern teenage life that you’ll read this year… outstanding contemporary fiction with appeal to fans of John Green.” The Bookseller

‘A very authentic, teenage voice’ – Sunday Times

‘Solitaire is an extraordinary novel … [Oseman] has captured her characters’ rage, humour and insecurity with aplomb.’ The Financial Times

‘Oseman proves herself a clever, witty writer’ Publishers Weekly

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Winner of the YA Book Prize 2021

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07KL771M3
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks (9 July 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1086 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 369 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #62,616 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #257 in Children's Family, Personal & Social Issues (Kindle Store)
- #1,441 in Children's Family, Personal & Social Issues (Books)
- #3,247 in Children's Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Vaishnavi

Great delivery 👍👍

Reviewed in India on 30 September 2020

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Arrived in perfect condition and on time👍 Really satisfied with the delivery and hope I'll love the book too!!

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Good condition

Reviewed in India on 25 October 2020

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Book copy is good and very beautiful! Yet to read it.

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Anukriti chaturvedi

Important contemporary YA

Reviewed in India on 23 July 2020

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I swear to goddess, Alice Oseman can make people question their sexuality at times with the way she interweaves all the description of various sexualities with her characters in her books.

Aero/Ace rep ftw. It has been portrayed
so beautifully. We Are Not Normal can learn a lot on how to write about people confused with their sexualities 🙃

Another coming of the age novel, which explores, friendships, all kinds of love, toxic relationships (for both the genders), sexuality set in the backdrop of a Shakespeare drama society at Durham Univ with lots of drama.

All in all, it's a good contemporary YA, set in Uni with a diverse & an adorable cast, where all of them are discovering themselves. It's vv current with our times in terms of the conversation & language the characters use & the pop culture they guzzle (NINE NINE!). It talks about the unrealistic expectations we have in mind before entering college, the sexual shaming culture, loneliness & the wanting to have an intimate connection with someone & the "right time" for relationships & such.

It did fall a bit short for me since it just went on and on at times so pacing wise, a bit of a problem & with some really redundant plot points as well. 😬

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Reading_Tam_Ishly

A must read young adult book💯

Reviewed in India on 20 July 2020

🌟🌈Reading Rush Day 1💫✨

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I ended up loving this book so much and I wasn't expecting to get so attached to the characters by the time I was just into 20 percent of the book.

Now they are literally my fictional family and I will protect them forever.

The story talks about exploring one's own sexuality and most importantly friendship and teamwork.

Through the characters, the author has done a remarkable job in explaining what asexuality and aromanticism mean and what they represent. I was laughing, crying and cringing (relatable moments, second hand embarassments you know) the whole time I was reading the book!

And who would have thought there would be a lot of Shakespeare stuff in this one?! Love that for all of us!

I loved all the characters, my favourites being Pip and Rooney. Damn, they're so cute and hilarious together!

This is such a wholesome read!

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Deepan Maitra

An epitome of aromatic representation, and also of every feeling out there

Reviewed in India on 14 June 2021

It was difficult for me to gather the thoughts I had for this book. Like clouds, like aroma….they were floating about and I was loving it, just couldn’t catch them. By the time I had finished reading ‘Loveless’, I was enchanted and I didn’t want to let go. Impression, attachment, bonding, relatability—maybe all of them. Alice Oseman, how delightfully do you write? How beautifully do you sketch your characters…that when I meet them, I feel I am meeting a part of myself.

Let us think of a large expanse of liquid: transparent and viscous. Now let us imagine pouring paint over it—blobs of vibrant paint, all shades and all consistencies. Like wisps of solid smokes, they flow within the liquid creating tendrils of colour. They become fluid in motion, they twist and turn and slowly dissolve. One colour mixes the another and sometimes it becomes an amalgamation no one has seen before. Somewhere the shades are murky, somewhere they are bright and sparkling, in some places they simulate the rainbow whereas in some, they represent a crack into the abyss. Let us think of these wispy tendrils of colours to be our feelings, emotions. Slowly flowing by and gradually descending through the viscous liquid, they craft concentrations never seen before. They accumulate at some places, a thick smog of colours almost taking over the liquid—and they become feelings special from the others. Feelings we all know, feelings we often encounter. They dissipate but accumulate soon—an identity of a specific colour palette.

Alice Oseman knows of all these. Her words glide over these wispy tendrils of plentiful colours, she pauses and takes the feel—how one colour stands out in the vicinity of the other, how some colours skid and some trudge along. She moves around them, inhales them, captures them to their completion, and this is how she knows. She knows humans, plain and simple. She knows us all. She knows this arena of colours, she knows where they mix and match, and she lets us taste the wonderful recipe of some rare concoctions. When Alice talks about what her characters are feeling, she isn’t just talking…she is essentially transmitting, radiating the feeling. Entrancing us all, she crafts ‘Loveless’. In just the first book I have read of her, I’ve been smitten.

Alice also knows that there’s this very gifted trail of colour which swoops in and out of the liquid. It changes shape, appears in forms, enchants and abandons—but its always there, either in our around, waiting and gripping. It is nothing but Love, the bountiful, frisky love—our neighbour of all acts, our dearest ally and ugliest enemy too. Love manifests in various forms, it takes colours and enters us all. One trail of bright magenta, illusory and sensual—love in all of its sensory extravagance—its Romance. Intoxicating and luring, it is the queen of romantic affiliation.

Georgia doesn’t feel romance. She doesn’t feel the connection, the electricity when two souls presumably connect, she is unaware of how it feels to be truly in love with someone—to be romantically attracted. The bright trail of sensual magenta, its monotone for her. But in that absence, there lies no void. Just like magenta isn’t the only colour, her feelings also don’t fall short of any colour palette. Love enters her too, in all shades but magenta and so very beautifully. She wins herself over, vaguely figuring it out until she has truly come to terms with the comedy of errors that gets staged around her. Her identity, her colours, her fascinations and her clusters: she understands all of it, until the gnawing feeling vanishes, until she feels herself again without a doubt. Georgia could be us all, she could be anyone who quivers or remains numb. In Oseman’s words, she not only transforms into a vehicle of all young emotions—but also into a character I personally would keep going back to.

‘Loveless’ could have just been the epitome of asexual and aromantic representation, but it is so much more. As I said, there is no scarcity of colours anywhere. Alice’s book talks about it all—in equal measures of endearment and empathy, and we all keep getting enchanted and drawn into a realm of acceptance, proximity and solace.

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Lucy

an important read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2020

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LOVELESS is a book that made me feel so seen, and I love it for that.

This novel follows Georgia as she goes through a journey of figuring out her sexuality and learning to accept and love herself. It's never crossed Georgia's mind that she may be aroace shes always just assumed - as everyone says - that eventually the right person will come along and she'll fall in love. Shes tired of waiting so decides that upon starting uni she's going to put herself out there more, only whilst she loves the idea of romance and sex she starts to realise that she can never quite imagine it for herself.

Georgia's coming to terms with her sexuality was very relatable to me in so many ways but especially in how she confuses platonic love for romance, and how crushed she feels coming to the realisation that as a lover of romance she'll never get to experience it for herself. I loved seeing my experiences reflected in Georgia and seeing how she was able to overcome this sadness and learn to love herself.

Seeing Georgia learn to accept her identity and realise that she wont ever be loveless because platonic love is just as important was truly such a wonderful thing to see (and did make me tear quite up a bit).

I did have some slight issues in that I would've liked more discussion on the ace spectrum. Georgia is sex repulsed which is totally valid but not all ace people are, and many ace people do have sex, I would've liked this to be acknowledged. All aroace experiences are different and they are all valid.

I also didn't like how Rooney's love of casual sex was in the end attributed to her using it as a coping method rather than just a love of sex cause some people do just love to have sex and I'm so tired of books always vilianizing casual sexual experiences.

Overall, I adored this and I'm so glad I was able to read it. It's not a perfect book but it was so important to me and I know it will be for many others too.

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Kat

Compassionate story of self-discovery. Loved it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2020

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‘Loveless’ by Alice Oseman tells the story of 18-year-old Georgia’s journey of self-discovery. It begins with her about to leave for University – a pivotal moment in her life, the first time living away from home and a catalyst for change. She’s going with her two best friends, but university will push her beyond these familiar friendships. Georgia has never had a boyfriend or girlfriend. But she decides it is at university where she’ll find someone to fall in love with and get to experience the romance her parents have. People keep telling her that her time will come and there is someone out there for her. Georgia is fed up with waiting for that time and person. She’s determined to throw herself into a university social life and find the destiny she’s seen in the countless rom coms she’s watched and read. But things don’t go smoothly or how she’d imagined. Her feelings don’t fit into anything she knows, causing her to berate and question herself. A new friend introduces her to the university Pride society where she first hears the terms asexual and aromantic. As Georgia becomes more confused about her love life, or lack of, desperation leads her to make questionable choices.

I’ve not seen other young adult books with an asexual protagonist and rarely see a minor character who is. This story brings understanding and much needed awareness. A loved one tells me how wonderful it is to finally see herself in a character and their experiences. She wishes she’d had this book to read a few years ago whilst struggling in a similar way to Georgia. She says that now, if someone doesn’t understand, she’ll refer them to read ‘Loveless’. I’m grateful to Alice Oseman for writing this book for her sake and because it has increased my own understanding. ‘Loveless’ is about far more than sexuality. Through an absorbing plot, and with a cast of loveable, entertaining characters, it’s a book about self-discovery, self-acceptance, friendship and finding yourself in a society where you feel the odd one, only to discover you have a place as exactly who you are. Heartachingly honest, compassionate and amusing in turns, I can’t recommend this book highly enough. I’ve already bought two copies and will be lending, gifting, and recommending it further.

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emily

Simply a must read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2020

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This book is wonderful. As an asexual, aromantic myself I was overjoyed when I found this book. The representation of Georgia's self discovery, and her coming out to her friends is perfect. I was nodding along and smiling. I read this book in a day, I couldn't put it down. Not only do I relate to Georgia's sexuality, I relate to her personality. We need more characters like Georgia! more books to represent aro-ace. Finishing this book was bittersweet. I felt like the author had taken all the thoughts out of my head and wrote them on paper. It felt a if the book was one gigantic hug. I didn't want it to end.. I really hope a movie is produced of this.

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user

great book brilliant representation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2020

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absolutely fantastic story and lovely characters and events. loved to see myself represented however i would recommend that you read when in a good mental space. Georgia's internal monologue hating herself for being forever alone kept reminding me of the thoughts and anxieties i had when i realised i was ace so be sure that you are prepared of that

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Steph

Another winner from Alice Oseman!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 July 2020

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A wonderful exploration of figuring out your identity, friendships and university. Alice Oseman doesn’t know how to write a bad book. Each of the characters in this book has flaws and it makes them even more loveable. This is a bunch of kids I’d love to be friends with! I thought the scene with the cousin was BRILLIANT.

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