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'This is a story that needs to be told' - Irvine Welsh A true story based on a false story Late one night in February 2018, the award-winning Irish journalist Olaf Tyaransen returned home to find his name trending on Twitter. To his horror, he discovered that Brooke Magnanti - controversial author of the Belle de Jour books - had published an article accusing him of physically and sexually assaulting another woman a few years earlier. Tyaransen had never met Magnanti, and the woman in question had recently died in tragic circumstances. While the allegation was completely untrue, it was already going viral. Hundreds of people were rushing to judgement and sharing Magnanti's article. In a painfully honest and compelling memoir, Tyaransen details the emotional, social and professional impact of that false accusation. His lacerating, unflinching account highlights the importance of due process, the mindless cruelty of crowds and the potentially fatal consequences of online vigilantism

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'#MeToo was the delightful payback where many scumbags got what was coming. However, internet pile-ons are the bluntest instruments of justice and can catch innocent souls in the crossfire. This cautionary tale of one such instance is a story which needs to be told. Olaf Tyaransen has done so with incredible grace and restraint' Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting 'We often say books are honest when they tell us what we want to hear. This book will not do that for many of us; all the more reason to read, therefore. Once you start, you won't be able to look away' Niamh Mulvey, author of The Amendments 'So addictive it kept me up till the small hours. Brutally honest, forthright and frequently witty, it tells of a miscarriage of justice in the first expose of the dark side of #MeToo' Larissa Nolan, award-winning columnist, Irish Mirror 'This searingly honest, often entertaining memoir reminds us that, despite the huge net positive of #MeToo, guilt by accusation is never a road we should take' Sarah Harte, prize-winning author and columnist, Irish Examiner

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Olaf Tyaransen is a poet, author, filmmaker and award-winning journalist. Born in Dublin in 1971 to an Irish mother and English-Norwegian father, he spent his formative years in the west of Ireland. His writing has been published in Hot Press, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Mojo and many other publications. His previous books include The Story of O: The Autobiography of an Irish Outlaw and Sex Lines: Adventures in the Erotic Underground. He lives in Galway.

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