Season 1 saw Collins tasked with investigating the deaths of two individuals – a veteran beat cop and a teenage girl – who fell from the top of a tower block in south east London. Emmett J Scanlan as DI Kieran Shaw and Michael Karim as PC Arif Johann in The Tower 2: Death Message. They tell each other everything and Ade loves how much Gaia knows about the plants and world around them. When Ade faces his most dangerous fate, we are terrified with him, knowing what an ordeal he has endured to survive to that point. It also sensitively covers the subject of mental illness (at an appropriate level for primary children) in one of the characters.

A science fiction fantasy story set in a familiar urban environment, a story about courage and friendship. She's also best known for playing Rebecca Jessel in The Haunting of Bly Manor, but has also starred in Waterloo Road, The Christmas Prince film franchise and Casualty. We see how Ade deals with this life changing situation through the detail of the mundane daily tasks and minutiae of practicality. Jim is Sarah's new boss, and it's safe to say he doesn't take well to Sarah - nor cultivate a safe and inclusive workspace, with comments regularly made about the women he works with. There is one thing that I still want to know about though, which is what happened to Cicely, Obi's wife.I was on edge the whole time; but found the pace of the book ideal for young readers particularly with all of the danger unfolding. Ade, despite being a child, shows an understanding beyond his years without ever feeling like the author was writing him too old, which is a skill the author has that I really admired. But you can't deny that some of the most innovative disaster concepts come from the twisted mind of pessimistic Brits. Something happen to Ade’s mother that made her fear the outside, and when the outside really does become dangerous Ade is left to look after her.

Friendship is a big feature throughout the novel, as Ade and Kaia are incredibly close; finding a friend in another outcast. Her debut novel, Boy in the Tower, was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award, Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Federation of Children's Book Groups Book Award. Like a fine Hitchcock, the author takes a long time to reveal the enemy, leaving the reader guessing and wondering as to what it looks like and what its purpose is. I didn't find it to be overly predictable, and the twists in the story always had me genuinely intrigued about what would happen next.

This book was written beautifully, somehow writing from the perspective of a child in a way that doesn't put off the adult reader. She wanted to create a story with children like the ones in her classroom at the centre of it: a fantastical story based in the reality that the children knew, in the hope that they would relate to the characters. I first heard about The Boy in the Tower at blogger brunch and when I found it on netgalley had to request it.