Fangirl

Cath writes fan fiction for an audience of thousands and can barely manage a conversation in the dining hall. Fangirl follows her first year at university, where neither skill helps quite as much as she hoped. Rainbow Rowell handles the ordinary crises of that year, from a twin sister pulling away to a difficult father, a new roommate and a first romance, with humour that never mocks her characters. The novel takes fandom seriously as a place where people practise being themselves before trying it elsewhere. Reasons it earns a reread: • A campus coming-of-age novel about anxiety and independence • Fan fiction treated as a genuine creative and social world • Family, friendship and first love handled with warmth • Young adult fiction that reads just as well for adults Young adult readers and anyone who has loved a story into their own identity will enjoy this Pan Macmillan edition, available at Boipoka.