How Could You Do This To Me, Mum?

This is the third book in the cheerfully convincing Leehampton trilogy and it recreates the format of five teenagers preoccupied with their problem parents. Rushton's wealth of journalistic experience and shrewd observations provide a strong factual fabric for credible storylines. The problems encountered by the Leehampton characters will be familiar to most adolescents: divorce, late pregnancy, racism, over-protectiveness. The narrative moves through an entertaining but reassuring rhythm of problem, resolution, change and support, providing hope for those readers convinced that their problems are both unique and insoluble. Thus readers will be only briefly unsettled as characters work their way to change and renewal. This book is funny, sharply observed and will undoubtedly be immensely popular with emotionally beleaguered adolescents.