Year 10

Gripping drama of teenage struggle by talented new writer

''I walk to parks and stare into space...just stand there and sometimes I cry, so much that I feel I might not ever stop . . . I stand in the parks with all the fruit bowls, drinking Special Brew and talking to themselves, I''m like a disappointed old man and I''m fifteen years old...''

In the suburbs of south London, Jack moves to a new scho...