Author(s): John Larkin

Fiction - YA

So your hair won't grow in the right places, you're in love but everyone thinks you're a geek, your mother's watching TV in electric slippers and there's so much spilled oil sloshing around the Indian Ocean that it's turned into a gigantic wok?

The problem with being 14, as Phil Payne sees it, is that at any moment you could lose your life - almost before you've found it!