As soon as I read the blurb for My Dark Vanessa I knew it was my kind of book and I was 100% correct. Slipping between present day (well 2017) and various points in the past, the novel explores the relationship between Vanessa and English teacher Jacob Strane which begins when she's his 15-year-old student.

I put off reading any Donna Tartt books for years. Not in a boycotting kind of way but they were extremely hyped among friends, hefty and I wasn’t even sure if they were going to be my kind of thing.