I have given each of my recommendations for children an age suggestion. These are of course approximate. Please also have a look at younger or older categories.
A wonderful summer read - a coming of age story set in New York in 1982. Beautifully sensual and atmospheric!
Review date: 10.05.22
Age recommendation: YA
The story of one family, one summer, in a holiday home by the coast. A wonderful escapist coming-of-age read.
Review date: 09.04.20
Age recommendation: - teens
A moving and haunting fictionalised account of a young girl deported with her family from Lithuania to Siberia during the Second World War.
Review date: 26.11.11
Age recommendation: Teenage
Social media influencers, investigative journalism, manipulation of the truth and murder, in Iceland. A thriller with two young women at its heart, taking on troubling contemporary themes.
Review date: 07.11.19
Age recommendation: Teenager
This wonderful coming-of-age classic is set in a castle inspired by the ruins at Wingfield, near Eye, Suffolk.
Age recommendation: teen
A beautiful, haunting and life-affirming post-apocalyptic story of a mother and son learning to survive in their changed circumstances in rural Wales.
Review date: 18.01.22
Age recommendation: Teen
A charming, magical, escapist summer read, particularly for anyone who loves the 1920s and the Cornish coast!
Review date: 22.06.20
Age recommendation: Teen
A talented young pianist opts out of the competition circuit, alienating herself from her ambitious family, then looks again at what she wants from life. Published in May.
Review date: 11.03.13
Age recommendation: 13+
