Dolly Atherton

[Dolphin78]

I have been trying and failing to get my 15 year old to read again and I know she carries Tomorrow Tomorrow in her school bag to satisfy school reading demands. Not convinced she actually she reads it.
Anyway I gave her a Dolly Atherton book to read last night and it’s been devoured.
Any recommendations along the same lines as I seem to have hit teen gold!!

Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a great book but I can understand why she hasn’t got into it, it’s quite a slow start if I remember right. If she enjoyed Dolly’s book (Ghosts or Good Material?) She might enjoy these:

Caroline O’Donaghue -The Rachel Incident.
Elizabeth Day - The Party, One of Us and Magpie
Coco Mellors - Cleopatra & Frankenstein and Blue Sisters

DD1 likes to read but will give up if she isn’t gripped after the first few pages but she read and enjoyed all of those.

It is a slow start you are right. Think I’ll get her Ghosts as she’s reading Good Material. Thanks for the other suggestions I think I’ve got One of Us somewhere!

Two things

1. How much do you, her Dad and her wider family model daily reading?
2. Make sure she knows if a book doesn't grab her in the first chapter it's absolutely fine to say 'this is not for me now' and put it down and read something else that does entertain or interest her. There's a reason keen readers have TBR piles, it's like a wine cellar so you always have the right book available for the mood you are in now.