Solitaire

It's 30 years since I was a 15 year-old, now I've got one of my own and this author is who they're reading. So I thought I'd better check them out for myself...

I was really impressed, the author was only 19 when this novel was published and her closeness to the age of her characters give them a realism missing from a lot of YA fiction. I liked that everyone was a little bit broken and I could have really done with this book back in the dark days of the mid-nineties - having been very “Tori” myself!

I hope it helps my 15 year-old, and other teens, to start talking about “stuff”. Kind of like a Judy Blume for the iGen. I'm not sure if the rest of her novels will resonate so much with me but I'm willing to give them a try.