i seen this Subby girl, our mam.
Forget her, Daz.
Not easy, our mam. Not easy.
Here is a teenage novel with everything: love loyalty, nail-biting suspense, some excellent writing, and a huge moral poser about where our Two Nations society will end. Set in a not-so-distant future world, the story is told through the alternate voices of the two young lovers. Fifteen-year-old Daz lives in the inner city, a fenced and impassable ghetto of despair and decay for inhabitants called Chippies. Zoe is a Subby, living in an outer-ring suburb of conformity and boredom. How the two teenagers meet and keep contact the divide is nail-biting enough, but the story of their escape from the ties of their own communities and the security forces is brilliant, pulling few punches about the cost to others which their freedom must exact.