If Only I'd Known

A sex education project is begun by a teacher with a burning concern to reduce the number of young teenage pregnancies. While undertaking a joint task in support of a new couple who have just moved to the town, David and Livvie explore their own developing love for each other. However, their care for the couple becomes complicated by the discovery that the husband is beating his wife, and there's a dramatic climax which the prologue of Livvie in a psychiatric unit has primed us for ... With the worthiness of sex education clothed (should that be fleshed out?) in fiction, this is a thoughtful and skilfully written book.