Like I Capture the Castle, I wish I'd read this book when I was a teenager. It's the sort of book that I wish I'd written as a teenager. Makes me miss youth's closeness to other worlds, as a way of dealing with all that angst. I wouldn't want to go back there, apart from to say 'these are the things that get better'; 'these are the things to make the most of now'. And this book reminded me of all that. Especially the consolation of books.