Faïza Guène’s first novel Just Like Tomorrow (Kiffe kiffe demain), published in 2004 when the author was just nineteen, became an instant bestseller and has been adopted as a set text in French schools. Her second novel, Dreams from the Endz (Du rêve pour les oufs) is somewhat bleaker in tone, narrated by a young woman whose mother was killed 13 years ago in a village massacre in Algeria, and whose father has suffered brain damage in an industrial accident. ‘Guène is too important a writer to dismiss because she conveys a generally unsettling message,’ wrote Nicholas Tucker in the Independent. ‘As before, she deserves to be heard.’