Paper Aeroplanes by Dawn O’Porter

Former Stylist columnist Dawn O’Porter makes her first foray into young adult fiction with her debut novel Paper Aeroplanes. Set in Guernsey in the mid-Nineties, the book charts the unlikely friendship of 15-year-old schoolgirls Renee and Flo. The pair couldn’t be more different if they tried – Flo is studious and introverted; Renee ambitious and sexually curious – yet they are drawn together by loneliness and a need to escape their dysfunctional families, at an age when life stretches out before you and anything can happen. Despite Paper Aeroplanes’ YA listing, the Nineties references, witty writing and cringe-worthy graphic scenes makes this a great read for adults too. (Hot Key Books, £7.99)

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