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• A courageous tale of friendship and family

  A great read, ideal for young teens, to reflect on courage and resilience. A tale woven with hope and hardship. Well worth the quick read.

• Great

  😢😢Very sad but great story. I really enjoy the description and the end where we find out what they did to their lives. Félicie

• Tender, funny and incredibly moving

  Anthony McGowan has pulled off something very rare here - a tender, funny and incredibly moving story that's written with dyslexic and reluctant readers in mind. Not that anyone would notice that, despite it being a short novel, printed in an easy-to-read font. Like the best poets, Anthony McGowan manages to convey an awful lot in relatively few words, and brings his stories about brothers Nicky and Kenny to an emotionally satisfying close. My children (10 and 12) loved it and so did I, even though it made us cry buckets. Now every time I go for a walk in the fields near me and hear the larks singing, I think of a particularly lovely passage in the book. Since we bought Lark, it has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize. I really hope it wins - it deserves to.

• Adventurous, moving, honest

  Adventurous in the truest sense: physically and emotionally, it explores risk, love, sacrifice and what it is we learn from our mistakes. Very funny and convincingly voiced, a great choice for young and less young readers.

• Nice touches in a familiar structure

  Nice novella with some good human touches, weighed down by a basic setup and structure which is too obviously constructed to pull tears at the end. (Light spoilers follow). When the book starts with a slightly simple older brother and a little dog, the only question is which one of them is the horrible thing going to happen to. Sure enough it does, and I wished that the close observation of childhood and what it means to be a family had been put to better use.

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