Format: Hardback

Publisher: Oxford University Press (1985)

Pages: 200

"Where are you off to, Pig-face?" The voice was croaky, just broken, but with a cat-and-mouse lilt to it. Terry stared up into the strange and frightening face before him.

Terry had run off from home after a row. He had thought he was alone on the common, but now he saw that he had been mistaken. His first instinct was to turn and run, to try to escape from a situation that he sensed held alarming possibilities...

Set in the dockland area of South London, this novel explores with compassion and humour the situation that develops after this encounter between two very different boys - Terry who, for all his irritation with his family, comes from the security of a happy home, and Les who has had to become the leader of a street gang to find any form of satisfaction.