See You Thursday

Once accepted on its own terms, See You Thursday isn't bad. From being implacably anti-lodgers and somewhat appalled by the idea of a new p-g. who is blind. Marianne about-turns once she meets Abe. She's a reluctant sixth-former at a mediocre private school, he's a music teacher eight years her senior (different establishment). The book charts the developing relationship. Get kids through the first few chapters to reach the romance and the mother/daughter clashes and it might be read. But why---apart from lack of imagination---make the background so distant from most kids' experience? Awarded a biscuit for a particularly awful opening.