Being a teenage girl is only getting harder. Thank God they still have Judy Blume | Leila Latif

Blume's groundbreaking books shepherded me and millions of others through the trials of adolescence - and they're still as relevant as ever

It is a truth universally acknowledged that being a teenage girl sucks. Struggling with a changing body, navigating the schoolyard hierarchies, feeling disconnected from your parents, being sexualised in ways you are both ready and not ready for - like most of my peers, I went through the wringer between the ages of 12 and 18.

When I look at my six-year-old daughter now, I worry about what she'll have to face in the hormone trenches - but I'm comforted that, like me, she'll have Judy Blume.