Ten Hours to Live
Pete Johnson
Published by Mammoth (March 1995)
0-7497-1793-9, £3.50 pbk
Ben falls in love with Sophie while he's playing Sir Lancelot, rescuing her from an unhappy love affair. Their relationship develops slowly, with the threat of Ryan, Sophie's ex-boyfriend, always in the background. A foolish argument ends the relationship but the end of the book sees the pair reunited. Sound familiar? Standard love story fare, but with a big difference: Johnson makes his characters into real people and explores their preoccupations and obsessions with keen observation and insight. This book will say a lot to many young readers - advance from here along the spectrum to Romeo and Juliet.
Reviewed in BfK No. 93 (July 1995) by Val Randall (VR)
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