How Could You Do This to Me, Mum?

A tad expensive but worth every penny of it for the sheer awful fun of adolescence, described in zit-filled detail. Expensive, because this is one of those reads 'they' will devour in one sitting, meaning further visits to the bookshop. But it will also be read to death, passed around in bags and eventually 'stolen', and so the circle goes on. The teenagers (is that word still cool?) found in the other two parts of the trilogy cope with all the humiliations imaginable - Chelsea's father sells soup from a van to make ends meet when his regular job folds up; John's mother, despite her dotage (she's probably all of 35), goes to demos ... I could carry on and on - it's wonderful. (The other titles in the Leehampton trilogy are Just Don't Make a Scene, Mum!, 1 85340 360 1, and I Think I'll Just Curl Up and Die, 1 85340 396 2, at £5.99 each.)