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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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Julian Christopher has been under surveillance since refusing his parents' wealth and joining the Radical Christian Fellowship - a group which allows him to examine his attitudes to his developing faith and sexuality.
His sexual vulnerability is exploited by Jamie, his surveillance officer, with whom Julian becomes unwittingly involved. There's a great need for books which allow teenage boys to explore their emotional responses and problems, and here Hoy excels. The climax - a riot of pseudo-symbolism - is almost comic in its clumsiness and devalues this sensitive and important book.
