I read this when I was in school, I'm not sure how, looking at the seemingly quite dark and explicit content of it now. I remember it was one of the first books to truly make me feel deep emotions of both sadness and joy. I've looked for this book for years, tried asking libraries, googling everything I could remember about it. Just reading some lines from it then gave me such a powerful feeling of nostalgia, of being back at school in the library, my face buried in the pages of this novel. I must have been eleven or twelve when I read it, and I'm twenty one now. Finally found it though, and I cannot wait to read it again.