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She said yes to adventure, dating, and a bigger life.
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A Bigger Life

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    30 December 2026

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Summary

‘Eat Pray Love for the Hinge era’ – The Sunday Times Style

What happens when you stop trying to be the woman everyone wants you to be, and start asking what you want instead?

At 38, Louise O’Neill had the life she thought she wanted. The relationship. The home. The future. Then it all ended, taking with it not only the life she had built, but her certainty about what a successful, happy life was supposed to l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780008762469
ISBN-10:0008762465
Author:Louise O’Neill
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:HQ
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:30 December 2026
Weight:400g
Dimensions:28mm x 153mm x 234mm
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Critics Review

‘A groundbreaking shift in how we talk about women, love and relationships’ – Marian Keyes
‘Beautifully written with generosity, candour, intelligence and wit. A Bigger Life reminds us all that hope exists, if we are brave enough to open our hearts to finding it’ – Elizabeth Day
’[This book is] so fierce, and so tender! There’s so much compassion there, it’s utterly captivating, profound and it’s very, very funny’ – Daisy Buchanan
‘I barely came up for breath. The honesty, the vulnerability…I inhaled it. This memoir has transformed my thoughts on love, sex and my own self-worth’ – Joanne McNally
‘So heartbreaking and uplifting. Thought-provoking and beautiful. It’s perfection’ – Cecelia Ahern
‘A memoir that cracks your heart open but somehow still leaves you laughing. It’s fearless and gloriously human, and a reminder that our messiest chapters are often where the real magic lives’ – Angela Scanlon
‘A beautiful, hilarious, riot of a read. This book is a rallying cry to women everywhere’ – Salma El-Wardany
‘Raw, relatable and revolutionary, Louise O’Neill had me laughing and crying in the space of a page. A Bigger Life felt like more than a memoir, it is a call to action’ – Jennie Godfrey
‘A brilliant, bold book which will give so many women the courage to rewrite their stories when they don’t go to plan’ – Bryony Gordon
‘A brand-new memoir that’s shaping up to be All Fours for millennial women’ – Sam Baker, The Shift
‘A Bigger Life isn’t really a book about men. O’Neill turns her famously sharp eye on herself, interrogating the expectations that shape women’s lives — from ageing and beauty to ambition, motherhood, masculinity and the fear of ending up alone’ – Marie Claire
‘Bold and beautiful’ – HEAT

About The Author

Louise O’Neill

Louise O’Neill is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Only Ever Yours, Asking For It, Almost Love, and Idol. Known for her sharp, fearless feminist writing, she has become one of the most important voices in contemporary Irish literature. Her work has been widely praised for its bold social commentary and emotional depth. A Bigger Life is her first full-length memoir.

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