Deirdre Riordan Hall je autorkou súčasných bestsellerov pre mladých dospelých. Jej diela sa často ponárajú do sveta fantázie, pričom skúmajú témy dospievania a hľadania mágie. Čitateľov si získava svojím pútavým štýlom a schopnosťou vytvárať realistické postavy, ktoré sa dokážu vyrovnať so zložitými emóciami. Jej tvorba je obľúbená pre svoju čarovnú atmosféru a pútavé príbehy.
Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn't always fat, but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. When Sugar meets Even, she has the new experience of someone seeing her and not her body. As their unlikely friendship builds, Sugar allows herself to think about the future for the first time, a future not weighed down by her body or her mother
When her uncle agrees to pay the tuition at a private boarding school, seventeen-year-old Pearl hopes to escape the homelessness and drama of life with her mother, a former rock star who's ruined her life with drugs.