The Book of the Banshee

Will Flowers, ace war correspondent, is reporting as an onlooker from the front lines in the trench warfare at 27 Beechcroft Avenue -Estelle, Year 8 teenage daughter versus the world, the universe and everything, especially her family. But, hold on ... our correspondent has suddenly lost his objectivity: They think of everything in this bloody war, except how to bloody well end it!' Anne Fine has achieved a brilliant mingling of wit, humour and how it is in an embattled family, alongside the war memoirs of a WWI recruit. I'm sure I know the prototypes for this novel! All adolescents should be detailed to read it when there's even a whiff of teenage animosity and then pass it on to their parents.