No Friend of Mine
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This month our cover features The Wheel of Surya (see Authorgraph for details), with artwork by Caroline Binch. The paperback of Jamila Gavin’s book was published by Mammoth in July 1994 and we’re most grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.
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No Friend of Mine
Class conflict and tests of true friendship lie at the heart of this fairly light novel set in 1937, I guess somewhere in Staffordshire. Bullied Lennie finds a friend in Ralph and soon realises they are poles apart yet draw together by a need for companionship. The latter seems to have so much more materially but in the end he's the one who cannot sustain the ill-matched bond and breaks it with his ungentlemanly conduct. Worth a copy, mainly for boys. Bully victims might take some comfort from it.
