Read Sons and Lovers

Pip, Magwitch on the marshes and Miss Havisham's rotting cake.

Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.

A 15-year-old with Asperger's investigates a dead poodle and finds out about his mother.

Salinger's restless coming-of-age classic (1951).

Huck and Jim down the Mississippi on a raft; "all modern American literature comes from" it, said Hemingway.

The four March sisters through the Civil War years; Jo the writer.

A red-haired orphan sent by mistake to a Prince Edward Island farm; Canada's best-loved book.

Esther Greenwood's summer in New York and the breakdown after; Plath's only novel.