As I'm sure it is for a lot of people, this was a formative book for me as a kid. Loveable characters, in a sad, no-win scenario. Shocking events seen through the naive eyes of an innocent child. A morality tale, about trying to understand people who come from a different walk of life - that is still relevant today.

My man wrote a book 50 years ago, in which space Jesus becomes a space Hitler and enacts a bloodthirsty jihad destroying everything in its path , because he wants to save the planet's climate, ecology and environment. Somehow, I sympathise.

I'm usually a person who enjoys the plot more than the prose, but the beautiful writing of Norwegian Wood made me sit up and take notice in a way Inusually don't. One of the few books in my life, where I immediately read through it again after finishing it the first time.

It's a story about rabbits, intended for children, written in an unironic serious tone as though it was for adults. Instead of inventing creatures or a fantasy setting, Adams drew on his love of nature and British countryside to write situations and settings that somehow feel grounded in reality - despite the life or death adventure with talking rabbits.