I bounced so hard off Autumn Term first time round that I didn't try Forest again for bearly 20 years! I think that it was the train, which I didn't get as a starting point, and I didn't like the characters - I definitely didn't like the bullying of Pomona at the time, I didn't like Tim, and I don't think I liked Nicola (to be honest, I am glad not to know most of the Marlows IRL, interesting characters as they might be). As an adult, I enjoy the aspect whereby it's clear that they don't always come across to others the way they think of themselves, but as a child I didn't really see that.