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Catherine isn't sure who she is. The hardworking student? The
dutiful daughter? Or someone else entirely? Catherine, Cat, Cath -
which is the real person? A gripping study of teenage pressure and
identity. Catherine is a typical A-grade student from a middle
class, high-achieving family, who suddenly, on entering the sixth
form, loses her way. She stumbles from one situation to another,
unable to work and turning to alcohol to take her mind off her
problems. As she searches for answers through the varied and
offbeat characters she meets, she learns a great many truths about
life. Can she cope with the biggest truth of all - her own
personality? Written in the first person, each chapter is addressed
to someone different in Catherine's life - her mother, a teacher, a
schoolfriend etc, and reflects how Catherine is different to
different people. It brilliantly reflects the pressures on young
people today in a world where they haven't got the time to grow up
at their own pace. Is the face we present to the world our true
self, or a carefully maintained construct?
Sixteen-year-old Anna is an unremarkable schoolgirl. She does her
homework, and keeps out of trouble. At home she emotionally
supports her depressive mother and occasionally goes out with
friends, but she allows no one to get close. Then Craig Ritchie
storms into her life, and nothing is the same again. Nothing much
happens in Anna's life. She gets on with her school work, helps her
mum and keeps her fellow students at arm's length. That is until
Craig Ritchie arrives, a new boy at school. For reasons she's not
really sure about, Anna tries to befriend him, but finds him
reticent. Then one night Anna is mugged. She tackles her assailant
and is horrified to see it is Craig. In the dark, he hadn't
recognised her. They begin talking, and from here their strange
friendship develops. Craig, or Ritchie, as he prefers, has been
involved in petty crime. He has a gang of friends from his old
school who he still knocks around with and, gradually, Anna gets
pulled into his world. But Ritchie isn't really the bad boy he
first appears. Between them, he and Anna decide to use crime to try
and redistribute wealth, rather than just steal for themselves.
Anna thinks of them as latterday Robin Hoods. Their first few jobs
work like a dream and Anna is excited and stimulated by her new
life on the edge. She also realises that she and Ritchie are
falling in love. But then things start to go sour. Anna wants to
stop the scams but Ritchie insists on just one final job, to get
his own back on the father who abandoned him and his mother before
he was even born. But there's something he's not telling her. They
set up the job to steal from Ritchie's dad's house, but when his
father discovers them, it transpires that Ritchie is really there
for a completely different reason - to kill him. And to Anna's
horror, he pulls out a gun ...
A gripping thriller about a teenage boy sucked into the dark world
of a cult. Eighteen-year-old Joe is bored. Stuck at home after a
bout of glandular fever, all his friends have left Manchester and
gone to university, leaving Joe with nothing but his rather
annoying family for company. When he meets Kate and Nick on the
train, something about them appeals to him. So he goes to see them
at their commune, a farm in rural Todmorden. Gradually, Joe's life
starts to make sense. With the White Ones he is wanted, and his
life has a purpose. When he meets Bea at the farm, he really feels
that his life is complete, and he decides to leave his family and
live with the White Ones forever. But there is something sinister
about Fletcher, the Todmorden White Ones leader. Fletcher seems
obsessed with Joe - convinced that he is a Perfect, and someone to
be venerated. A dramatic trip to the wildest reaches of Orkney will
show Joe his destiny - and reveal some shocking truths.
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