@internrachel and @julia1 Finally finished Julie Burchill’s Sugar Rush last night – it’s 208 pages. It’s a teen book but was also very graphic at some pointd in terms of its language. I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of the TV show but as far as I can tell it’s a bit different.
Kim moves from her posh school to the local ‘scuzzy’ school where she is befriended by Sugar. Kim knows Sugar is daft totally wrong for her but that doesn’t stop her from falling head over heels. Sugar can be quite manipulative and uses Kim’s feelings for her own means.
As an LGBT-themed YALit book I’d say this stands apart from others I’ve read and perhaps this is because it is British and is generally a bit more of brash than a lot of American YALit (in fact I’d compare it to the forties pulp novel ‘Spring Fire’ more than anything).
To be honest I found it quite draining and tiresome to read after a while, perhaps because I’m not of the target demographic and I didn’t really relate to Kim.