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Book SynopsisWhen Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway mother to her unborn child: Dear Jeremy' it began or Amanda...'. Now Baker is sixteen and sick of her lot as she moves miserably between lessons, her only solace her fifth form gang the four Mandies and a low-calorie diet of king-sized cigarettes. That is, until she teams up with Julia Smith, games captain and consummate game player. And so begins a passionate friendship that will threaten her future, menace her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone she holds dear.
Trade ReviewFizzes with cracking one-liners, acute observations and acidic social satire. It’s funny, boisterous and sharp ... An acerbic and gloriously evocative portrait of Seventies girlhood … Pitch-perfect *
Sunday Telegraph *
Simultaneously funny – wryly and sometimes bleakly so – and painful to read. Levene perfectly captures the brutality of adolescence *
Sunday Times *
An acutely observed and witty portrayal of the school exploits and growing pains of a 1970s teenager … Knowing and funny, this is St Trinian’s for grown-ups ***** *
The Lady *
A clever and extremely entertaining study of teenage claustrophobia *
Independent *
Reflective, bittersweet and frequently funny *
Metro *
Levene’s sharply observed comedy mixes affectionate satire of the stylistic oddities of the time with an invigorating sparkle of real dislike for the petty tyrannies of parental and pedagogical authority *
Evening Standard *
