It's ready - made for book club or classroom discussions, and it's guaranteed to provide (forgive me) food for thought long after you have finished reading... Nothing delves deep into philosophical territory in a way that
few modern fiction novels (especially YA novels) do.
A recent article in The Guardian by We Need to Talk about Kevin author, Lionel Shriver (who I was lucky enough to meet at a literary festival a
few years ago) rightly said: «If all
modern literature comes to toe the same goody - goody line,
fiction is bound to grow timid, homogeneous, and dreary.»