Bad Company
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Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from War Boy: A Country Childhood, written and illustrated by Michael Foreman and published in October 1989 by Pavilion Books (185145 353 9, £9.99). We are grateful to Pavilion for help in using this illustration.
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Maxine and her mother Viv are beaten by Viv's husband. Viv leaves with a sympathetic boyfriend but Maxine stays to protect her younger sister and her own developing love affair with Finn. Trouble courts them both and, after an idyllic reunion in the Lake District, the family return to a custody case - happily, won by Viv. The detached but confidential tone, the familiar characters and situations - all too common but too often media-sensationalised - make this book a success and a worthy, if rather expensive, addition to a 4th/5th year bookbox.
