How To Build A GirlAs beautiful as it is funny, 'How to Build a Girl' is a brilliant coming of age novel in Dr Martens and ripped tights, that captures perfectly the terror and joy of trying to discover exactly who it is you are going to be.

providing solace in a time of great anxiety - not least because the crisis struck at the beginning of spring

So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot

But neither sister came out of the journey unscathed

the three friends find themselves unmoored

stolen books and top-secret missions to alternate realities

but this time through Somerset

and the exciting photos combined with fun illustrations provide lots to talk about

and furthermore

witnessing the events

for the balance of power in Europe rests on this marriage alliance

For both young readers and adults it continues to bring to life this young woman

set in nineteenth-century Ireland and based on newspaper reports and a court case from the time