Junk (Paperback)

"Everyone should read Junk." * The Times *
"Melvin Burgess's ground-breaking Junk remains the best book about teenagers and drugs to this day" * Julia Eccleshare, Guardian Online *
"Junk has a perfect sense of time and place, characters who feel real and it may just be the best YA book ever." -- Robert Muchamore * Big Issue, Top 5 Young Adult Books *
"Occasionally a 'teenage novel' comes along which makes one reconsider the whole genre and its potential. Such a book is Melvin Burgess's Junk." -- Robert Dunbar * Children's Books in Ireland *
"Personally I prefer the love triangle in Melvin Burgess's Junk, in which Tar's devotion to heroin split he and Gemma apart." -- Juno Dawson * Guardian *
"This book is beguiling, layered and filled with a boldness that comes with youth." * Gemma Cairney *
"Brilliantly and sensitively written, it encompasses the raw, savage and ecstatic world of the adolescent mind... a superbly crafted and important book" * TES *
"Beautifully written" * The Times *
"Believable and rivetingly readable. I couldn't put it down." * Evening Standard *
"Moving and provocative" * Observer *