Sophie Gee

It's a beautiful film.

So, all right, Jonty, I can't wait to get to our last question.

Oh, it's so underrated.

Oh, my God.

The whole time I was reading this book, I was texting people, have you heard of A Casual for an Ave?

Have you heard of it?

Read it, read it, read it.

It's amazing.

I've just been observing various high school students reading books in their English classes that are obviously the teacher's efforts to give them age-appropriate reading material and a lot of contemporary fiction that's sort of okay, but it's so thin, it's so...

uninteresting and i just thought wow imagine if you're a school child and you had the opportunity to read a kestrel for a knave well was it powerful for you when you read it as a teenager yeah and i'd say it's appropriately rated in in the uk like it's it's it's often on school syllabuses you know iconic film but it hasn't translated anywhere else in in the world so i'd say when you say the film people are like oh yeah okay yeah i know yeah but no one's read the book yeah yeah

So we're now three quarters of the way through our school series.

And I think we've really started to see the kind of capacities and the possibilities of this genre.

Next week, we're jumping the pond.

We're going to be in America.

What's the title going to be?

Wait and find out.

We've had lots of good guesses from people about what we're going to cover.

We should say, by the way, that we are going to do a second series on college novels, on university novels, because there's a whole...

Really rich genre of canvas novels, and we can't wait to get to those.

This is just about school stories.