A review by gillyreads
Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett

Sonya Harnett is one of my favourites, but this was a bit of a disappointment. Her writing is incredible, as always, and I think was particiularly strong through the elements of thes tory about school and Plum's teenage friendships. The casual cruelty and self-absorbtion of teenagers is done with Hartnett's usually deftness.

The main issue I had with this book was that all the fatphobia make me feel so yuck, I don't necessarily thing you can't depict the terrrible ways people are treated in books but this didn't work for me at all. 
I also felt like this book couldn't quite decide if it was YA or adult, and so didn't work as either.
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