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.

In 2017, I will be putting five books up on Amazon- one a month from the 15^th of January to the 15^th of May.  These books will form the “Support” series; a number of interconnected stories set in the same city over (roughly) the same two months.  Each of these stories is self-contained, but, when read together, they form a picture of a vibrant but troubled city in which everybody’s actions have an unpredictable impact on everybody else.

And, because it’s been a rough year in many ways, half of my earnings from this series will go to Amnesty International.  Every little helps.