Gill Berryman thinks that her school is the arsehole of the universe.  She’s more right than she knows.

At William Gladstone Comprehensive, everybody has their own agenda.  There’s the vicious, borderline-fascist Fern Buckley, who wants to destroy a classmate she deems unworthy.  There’s English teacher Mrs Armitage, who takes playing favourites to a dangerous new level.  There’s angry, unstable Stacy Cole, whose greatest fear is her own potential for violence.  And there’s Gill’s shy friend, Missy, who acts on an impulse and turns all their lives upside-down.

There might be lessons to be learned in all this, but they’ll have to survive first.

Valuable Lessons is the first in the “Support” series, a group of interconnected stories set in the same time and place.