In Sara Barnard’s Fragile Like Us, Caddy’s friendship with her life-long best friend, Rosie, changes dramatically with the arrival of Suzanne, who’s exciting and mysterious, and clearly a little damaged. Suzanne encourages Caddy to be impulsive and reckless — but that leads to trouble, putting Rosie and Caddy at odds with each other, and with […]
Fragile Like Us is sensitive, heartbreaking, and beautiful, and I was so glad to finally read it. It tells the story of Caddy, a sixteen-year-old girl who’s ready for her life to become more interesting and exciting. She meets Suzanne and is swept up in a close and consuming friendship with her. But Suzanne is […]
Everyone loves a romance. The old, familiar journey from meet-cute to first kiss to a stuttering ‘I love you’. The giddy joy of a crush reciprocated… We do them really, really well in YA. Boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy meets boy, girl meets girl, girl meets boy and also a girl… we’re even […]
