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|summary=A weird, gorgeous, utterly unplaceable work of fiction that’s hilarious, uplifting, dirty and real, ''The Panopticon'' is the world as seen through the eyes of teenage delinquent Anais Hendricks.

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Imagine reading a book set in a Scottish children’s care home. It’s about a violent and a deeply disturbed fifteen year old drug addict who, when she was eleven, found her prostitute foster mother murdered in the bathtub. That’s the set-up of Jenni Fagan’s ''The Panopticon'', and that’s what it’s about – but the funny thing is that whatever you’re picturing in your head right now, and what I was imagining before I sat down to read it, bears absolutely no resemblance to the book Fagan has actually written.