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The Following Girls Author: Louise Levene

ISBN: 9781408842904 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 272 Published: 1 July 2015 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.2 Description: For fans of An Education and My Summer of Love - a powerful and biting social satire about a girl struggling to find freedom in 1970s suburbia

When Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway mother to her unborn child: 'Dear Jeremy' it began 'or Amanda...'. Now Baker is sixteen and sick of her lot as she moves miserably between lessons, her only solace her fifth form gang - the four Mandies - and a low-calorie diet of king-sized cigarettes. That is, until she teams up with Julia Smith, games captain and consummate game player. And so begins a passionate friendship that will threaten her future, menace her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone she holds dear.

About the Author

Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime, which was also longlisted for the Desmond Elliott first novel prize, and Ghastly Business. She has been the dance critic of the Sunday Telegraph since 1998 but has also been an advertising copywriter, a window dresser, a radio presenter, an office cleaner, a crossword editor...

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