Deborah Ross

Warm, charming and tender: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret reviewed

I assumed I'd be bored to death but this Judy Blume adaptation is much better than anything else I've seen recently

Abby Ryder Fortson (Margaret Simon) and Kathy Bates (Sylvia) in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Image: Dana Hawley / Courtesy of Lionsgate UK
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