Solitaire

Tori Spring is a teenager who likes sleeping and blogging, navigating the isolating pressures of A-Levels and university applications after a painful falling out with her former friend group. When a mysterious online game called Solitaire emerges and Michael Holden enters her life, Tori finds herself caught between her carefully constructed digital world and the messy reality of human connection. Alice Oseman's debut novel captures the loneliness and disconnection of modern adolescence with sharp wit and emotional honesty. This is not a love story—it's a story about what happens when the walls you build to protect yourself start crumbling down.