In 2012, a then 34-year-old American young-adult novelist, John Green, is at the top of the Amazon book charts, before his book, The Fault in Our Stars, is even published. He's also at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Roll forward two years and the movie version of this book has just opened in 3,171 screens across the US, and taken $48.2m (£28.4m) at the box office in its opening weekend alone, recouping its budget four times over. The book is now the bestselling title in the UK, on all formats. It has sold more than nine million copies internationally, and been translated into 47 different languages. The Fault in Our Stars is about two teenagers who are dying of cancer. They fall in love while they are dying of cancer.

It is a devastating and exquisite read that, startlingly, our children have introduced us to – it's the book that everyone is reading at school, from 10-18 year-olds. Pick it up and you'll be shocked – that a reader, certainly from the younger part of this age range – can handle it, understand it, relate to it. 'John was dealing with a brutal subject matter and wanted to tell a true story,' explains Green's editor of 15 years, Julie Strauss-Gabel. Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up He wanted to show how tough, painful and dehumanising the experience can be – he didn't want to gloss over things.'ĭaily Headlines & Evening Telegraph Newsletter 'I was never worried that he was going too far, that I should pull him in. Not glossing over things is an understatement. The story starts in a cancer support group for children, each person getting up to introduce themselves and their illness, and stage of illness.

The person whose eyes we are seeing this through is 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster (played by Shailene Woodley), our heroine, who has stage four thyroid cancer, and is only alive because of a new drug that should have stopped working on her by now.Īt this support group, Hazel lays eyes on a boy with foppish hair and movie-star looks – Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) – who is in remission from bone cancer. And thus begins a love story that is dazzling in its innocence and authenticity the perfect capturing of first love.

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