Noughts and Crosses

"This is just one of those books. So well written, and all her books are good but this one is so much better than all the others. I just remember picking it up and I was a little bit put off. I thought it was going to be a politically correct thing about black and white people and stuff like that. It sat on the shelf for a long time and then I picked it up when I was bored and I sat and read the book all the way through. You pick it up at half three in the afternoon and at half 11 at night you’re lying in bed reading the final chapter. It gripped me all the way through. It’s hard to describe. It’s set in a society where it’s a reverse South Africa and the blacks are quite dominant and the white people are slaves, and then you’ve got these star-crossed lovers, a black girl and a white boy… It all sounds quite corny but it’s one of those books. It’s more of a thriller than anything else. I reckon if you could get your son to start reading it – OK, it’s written by a lady and it’s a romance – but if you could get him to start reading it, I reckon he’d love it."