This book is part of a book series called Puffin Teenage Fiction .

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh but grew up in Belfast. She has had a long and varied career in children's books, and was awarded the M. B. E, in 1998 for services to children's literature. She writes with equal success for teenagers, adults and the very young.