All grown up now: the writers blurring lines between teen and adult fiction

Maturing YA authors move beyond rigid age-group markets

Bridget Collins was about to quit writing when she came up with the book that would become The Binding, a lush historical fantasy above love, loss and desire in a world where books are used to “bind” memories ensuring that bad or troubling moments can be forgotten.

Collins, who had begun her career in young adult fiction, was between contracts. She wrote her first adult novel because it was “the book I wanted to read”. It has already sold more than 35,000 hardback copies – and 100,000 when eBooks are included – making it the biggest-selling fiction hardback of the year so far, an achievement driven largely by the support of booksellers and word-of-mouth recommendations.

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