HOW CLEAN BECAME OUR WINNER

The Big Book awards showcase the finest new and emerging fiction and non-fiction across the UK – with all the books on the longlist being independently judged by Cosmopolitan’s readers, the editors and our guest judge, author Giovanna Fletcher (left). Clean tells the story of Lexi, an indulgent rich kid who becomes a heroin addict and consequently finds herself in rehab. Clean scored the highest mark across the board (although it was very tight – to find out which other reads almost made it, check out Big Book’s Instagram @hearstbigbook). “It seemed so real in places, you felt everything the protagonist was going through,” says Fletcher. Clean, Quercus, £7.99