Coming of age novels – Ali Bacon / Books Etc

May 31, 2011

Hurry Up and Wait

The blurb on the back of Isabel Ashdown’s second novel (Hurry Up and Wait from Myriad Editions) suggests it’s about a school reunion, but don’t be deceived. This is a novel about school days, or more precisely how it was to be fifteen in 1985. Now it so happens that the mid-eighties somehow passed me … Continue reading Hurry Up and Wait

April 22, 2011

A genre by any other name …

This week I stumbled on an interesting blog post from an Australian writer that proposes a new genre for novels that could fall into either the YA or general adult categories. The suggested name for this is New Adult (hopefully NA rather than NAF!) and was I think originally conceived to identify an alternative to chick … Continue reading A genre by any other name …