Sarah Webb reviews Denise Deegan’s And By the Way: A Butterfly Novel -

The dialogue is sharp (if a little too authentically littered with Joseph O’Connor “likes”), the writing tense, and emotion ripples through every page.Deegan nails Alex’s caustic teen voice, and leaves the reader rooting for her heroine throughout. Think 90210 with a sprinkling of Dublin grit. This might be just the book to get older teens reading again.