![]() ![]() She doesn't change, but you change when reading about her world. If you share those sentiments at the beginning of the book, I just want to tell you to stick with it. She says and does things that are completely typically teenager-y and she's the most unloyal friend you could have. Freida is the main narrator and I most admit that I honestly hated her at the beginning. ![]() Only Ever Yours is is the story of Freida, Isabel and their last year in high school. ![]() At graduation, the most highly rated girls become “companions”, permitted to live with their husbands and breed sons until they are no longer useful.įor the girls left behind, the future – as a concubine or a teacher – is grim.īest friends Freida and Isabel are sure they’ll be chosen as companions – they are among the most highly rated girls in their year.īut as the intensity of final year takes hold, Isabel does the unthinkable and starts to put on weight.Īnd then, into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride.įreida must fight for her future – even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known. In a world in which baby girls are no longer born naturally, women are bred in schools, trained in the arts of pleasing men until they are ready for the outside world. ![]()
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