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I read lots as a child, my shelves stacked with Jacqueline Wilson and Louise Rennison that I dived into. As I got older, reading took a back seat until many years later. This was one of the first books I read as an adult and I adored it. It's heart-warming and is one of those that make you laugh and shed a tear as you read the same sentence. It's beautiful, and it's the book that made me fall in love with reading all over again.

YA Fiction at it's very best. Jackson is, quite frankly, the queen of mysteries. This one took me by surprise. I found myself utterly enthralled by Pip's journey, and I ended up reading this in three days. There's twists a plenty, and Jackson lines them up perfectly. All three books are great.

One of the greatest - if not, *the* greatest thriller of all time. There's no ghouls, no monsters, and that's what makes it so intensely horrifying. This is just brilliant, every page makes you turn quicker and quicker, eye darting down the page as you race towards yet another twist you really, honestly, hand on heart, didn't see coming. Just brilliant.

This is so much more than a book to me. It’s the most defining piece of literature I’ve read so far in my 20’s. It’s reading it at nineteen and again at twenty one, twenty five and twenty seven and relating to the parts you didn’t even comprehend in the read before. It’s returning to it time and time again when you need the warm hug only Dolly’s words can give. It’s telling everyone you’ve ever met (even strangers in shops and baristas behind bars - the drink-making type(!)) that they haaaave to drop everything and read it right now - here actually, have my copy!