The List: The instant Sunday Times bestselling debut novel – ‘The perfect summer read’ Paula Hawkins

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Perfect for fans of Such a Fun Age, Luster, and My Dark Vanessa, this is a searing portrait of these modern times and our morally complicated online culture. She is currently a columnist at The Guardian and British Vogue and is the former host of the Women's Fiction Prize podcast. Ultimately, the anonymity of social media facilitates people to act in a different way as if they were face to face, 'it was an anonymous, immediate way to settle a score. All of this is important material but I found the writing foggy and messy at times with extraneous exposition and descriptions that could have been cut or better integrated.

Sometimes the scenes read like parts which could be further developed into a TV show with more context.While we do get a good insight into what the lead characters face because of the allegation on the List, their overall character sketch was underdeveloped.

I'd describe this as a finger-on-the-pulse hot and buzzy book but also as one that could have been more polished as a fictional vehicle to carry the important social commentary and debate. I realised the author wanted to focus on the danger of misinformation on social media and the fickle nature of social media favour.Fans of No One Is Talking About This or So You've Been Publicly Shamed will definitely appreciate the fictional takes in “The List”. With their future on the line, Ola gives Michael an ultimatum to prove his innocence by their wedding day, but will the truth of what happened change everything for both of them?