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Oligarchy
- Narrated by: Scarlett Thomas
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Chris
- 22-10-21
Unusual departure
I've read a lot of books by Scarlett Thomas and this is very different but utterly riveting.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-04-21
A pile of tripe
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.
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- Anne
- 09-01-23
Wouldn’t read again
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.
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