Matthew Whittet: 2 books

Set in that time after the end of the last day of school, but just before everyone moves on. It’s about the cusp of adulthood, the cusp of complete change. Jess is Mike’s girlfriend. Tom is Mike’s best friend, but he’s secretly in love with Jess. Emilia is Jess’s best friend and she’s...

Seventeen is about the cusp of adulthood and has been specially written for a rollcall of the country’s great senior actors— Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden and Barry Otto—all playing a group of teenagers, drinking, singing, dancing, gabbling, worrying and maybe even pashing, their way through their last night of childhood and their first night of adulthood.