‘A book that will change your life’. Words that often appear on book covers today. But is it really possible for any book to have a life-changing effect on its reader? Independent on Sunday literary editor Katy Guest poses this question to novelist, biographer, reviewer and critic D J Taylor, and to novelist Rachel Hore, who teaches publishing at the University of East Anglia. Then it will be over to you the audience to share your experiences of books that affected your life – and also of those that did not live up to the promise on the cover.