The next book to be featured this season on the Sara Cox Radio 2 Book Club is The Compound by Aisling Rawle—an addictive literary satire on our consumerist society: it holds a twisted mirror up to our obsession with winning, losing and, above all, watching.
The book was released on 3 July and Aisling’s interview with Sara is on BBC Sounds from Tuesday 29 July.
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The Compound
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?
About the author
Aisling Rawle is an ex-bookseller from Leitrim in the West of Ireland and has worked as a secondary-school English and Music teacher in Dublin.
The Compound is her first novel.
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