The Compound

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Lord of the Flies meets Love Island – dark, thrilling, and delightfully twisted’ LOUISE O'NEILL ‘So gripping and propulsive that it beats reality TV at its own game. Why watch TV when Aisling Rawle does it better?’ TORREY PETERS ‘A clever and delicious treat’ ZAKIYA DALILA... Read More
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The Compound

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Lord of the Flies meets Love Island – dark, thrilling, and delightfully twisted’ LOUISE O'NEILL

‘So gripping and propulsive that it beats reality TV at its own game. Why watch TV when Aisling Rawle does it better?’ TORREY PETERS

‘A clever and delicious treat’ ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS

‘Page-turning, nail-biting… utterly bingeable’ OLIVIA GATWOOD

You wake up in a compound in the middle of the desert, along with nine other women.

All of you are young, all beautiful, all keen to escape the grinding poverty, political unrest, and environmental catastrophe of the outside world.

You realise that cameras are tracking your every move, broadcasting to millions of reality TV fans.

Soon, ten men will arrive on foot – if they all survive the journey.

What will you have to do to win?

And what happens to the losers?

The Compound is an addictive literary satire on modern excess: it holds a twisted mirror up to our obsession with winning, losing and, above all, watching.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008710095

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 July 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The Borough Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 270g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Aisling Rawle is an ex-bookseller from Leitrim in the West of Ireland, and now works as a secondary-school English and music teacher in Dublin. THE COMPOUND is her first novel.

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