Junk: 25th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

"Everyone should read Junk." "Melvin Burgess's ground-breaking Junk remains the best book about teenagers and drugs to this day" "Junk has a perfect sense of time and place, characters who feel real and it may just be the best YA book ever." "Occasionally a 'teenage novel' comes along which makes one reconsider the whole genre and its potential. Such a book is Melvin Burgess's Junk." "Personally I prefer the love triangle in Melvin Burgess’s Junk, in which Tar’s devotion to heroin split he and Gemma apart." "This book is beguiling, layered and filled with a boldness that comes with youth." "Brilliantly and sensitively written, it encompasses the raw, savage and ecstatic world of the adolescent mind... a superbly crafted and important book" "Beautifully written" "Believable and rivetingly readable. I couldn’t put it down." "Moving and provocative"