Alice Oseman

Alice Oseman writes and illustrates stories about queer young people, friendship, identity, and the gap between expected and lived experience. Loveless turns its central love story toward Georgia’s friendships as she understands herself as aromantic and asexual.

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Loveless

2020 · Contemporary

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2 editions: Print · 2022 | eBook · 2022

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Georgia arrives at Durham University convinced that romance should be part of her new life, even though she has never been in love or wanted to kiss anyone. With her friends Pip and Jason and her new roommate Rooney, she tries parties, dating, and the university Shakespeare society. Those experiments force Georgia to reconsider the stories she has absorbed about fulfillment. As she learns about aromantic and asexual identities, she also has to repair friendships hurt by her attempts to become someone she is not.

Print · HarperCollins Children's Books · 2022 · English

eBook · HarperCollins Children's Books · 2022 · English

Podcasts & Discussion (8)

Heartstopper Forever: The Official PodcastAlice Oseman and Patrick Walters Reflect on Their Heartstopper Journey ↗2026-07-17 Front RowHeartstopper creator Alice Oseman ↗2026-07-15 The Waterstones PodcastAlice Oseman ↗2026-07-01 I've Never Said This Before With Tommy DiDarioAlice Oseman & Patrick Walters of Heartstopper ↗2024-10-22 Radio Times PodcastHeartstopper Special Part One: Alice Oseman ↗2024-10-01 Big Gay Energy: An LGBTQ+ Media PodcastSolitaire by Alice Oseman | Big Gay Book Club ↗2024-05-15 Big Gay Energy: An LGBTQ+ Media PodcastHeartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman | Big Gay Book Club ↗2024-02-14 Sounds Fake But OkayEp 143: Loveless feat. Alice Oseman! ↗2020-08-02

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Listen & Watch

Loveless with Alice Oseman

Sounds Fake But Okay hosts Oseman to discuss Georgia’s aro-ace coming-out story and the ideas behind Loveless.

Sounds Fake But Okay · August 2, 2020

Alice Oseman on Aro-Ace Representation

The Nerd Daily asks Oseman about Loveless, writing from personal experience, and aromantic and asexual representation.

The Nerd Daily · July 9, 2020

Alice Oseman Reads from Loveless

Oseman reads an excerpt from the novel for the YA Book Prize.

The Bookseller · May 23, 2021

More About Alice Oseman

Alice Oseman is an author, illustrator, and screenwriter whose novels and comics share a world of queer teenage lives. The official press kit lists Solitaire, Radio Silence, I Was Born for This, and Loveless alongside Heartstopper, which Oseman adapted for television as creator, writer, and executive producer.

Loveless follows Georgia to university, where attempts to force romance into her life damage the friendships already sustaining her . Oseman’s interview with The Nerd Daily connects the novel’s aromantic and asexual representation to a writing process that became personally clarifying.

The novel won the 2021 YA Book Prize . Kirkus calls it an imperfect but necessary portrayal of an underrepresented identity, noting both its validating power and the pain of Georgia’s internalized prejudice; Oseman’s own reading and podcast appearance let readers hear the work and its intent directly.

Awards & Recognition

YA Book Prize Winner — Loveless

The Bookseller records Loveless as the 2021 winner and describes its focus on an aromantic and asexual protagonist’s self-discovery.

YA Book Prize · 2021

Critical Reception

Loveless — Kirkus Reviews

Kirkus weighs the novel’s validating representation against the intensity of Georgia’s internalized aro- and ace-phobia and limits in some supporting characters.

Kirkus Reviews · September 14, 2021