‘It felt like she was writing for me.” It is a sentiment I hear over and over again, talking to women in their 40s and 50s about the American writer Judy Blume, one of the world’s bestselling authors, who started writing young adult fiction in the 1970s, when that genre was still in its infancy.
As a 12-year-old growing up in Bath, western England, my Judy moment – discovering her novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which is due to be released as a film worldwide in the coming weeks – was revelatory. There I was, feeling like