I came down from my bedroom hideaway one Saturday morning; a week after I had been up rooted from my school and friends in Haslemere. I had been having trouble making friends in my new school in Kingston and I was sulking. My mum and dad were waiting to s...
Teenage Blues Claire had two reasons to feel miserable in autumn 1963. She had just started the third secondary school she had attended since she was eleven; and her mother had put her on a strict diet, after Claire had returned from a youth club camp fou...
Identity Crisis Sitting at a table with her mother and father at the side of an area designated as the dance floor Claire felt extremely self conscious. She had realized as soon as she arrived that she was wearing the wrong dress for the charity dance. Sh...
