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The best books about being a teenager – according to our experts

Awkwardness and acne are the first things that spring to mind when thinking of adolescence, but they’re not always the full picture. We asked eight of our experts to tell us which book they feel best represents the experience of being a teenager.

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Billie Eilish in talks for film acting debut in adaptation of Sylvia Plath's ‘The Bell Jar’

Ten-time Grammy winner and two-time Oscar winning songwriter Billie Eilish is in advanced talks to make her acting movie debut in an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s "The Bell Jar".

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Billie Eilish in talks to make film debut in Sarah Polley’s adaptation of The Bell Jar

Singer previously acted in 2023 TV show ‘Swarm’

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Why I Think Billie Eilish Found The Perfect Role For Her Movie Debut

Billie Eilish, the movie star?

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Billie Eilish to make movie debut in The Bell Jar

Billie Eilish is in final talks to take on the lead role in The Bell Jar.

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Sylvia Plath’s ‘fig tree analogy’ from The Bell Jar is being misappropriated

In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood imagines her life branching out before her like a green fig-tree. Each individual fig on the branches represents a different “wonderful future” – a family, a successful career, romance, travel, fame, etc.

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Novelist Sarah Moss: ‘Hunger numbed my shame and humiliation’

As a bullied schoolgirl, the writer starved herself while greedily consuming classic novels. Looking back, she asks if their fragile heroines played a part in her increasingly dangerous attempts to lose weight

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Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

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21 of the Greatest American novels that everyone should read

From historical classics to postmodern marvels

Evening Standard

But The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu review – an impressive debut

This observant novel follows a young Malaysian Australian writer as she unpicks her preconceptions of an artist’s life, postcolonialism and Sylvia Plath

The Guardian - AU

'I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English': a vivid, playful debut disrupts clichés of docile Asian womanhood

Many contemporary novels adamantly refuse readers a pleasurable reading experience – with clunky prose and a cloying earnestness. But life’s too short for boring books.

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