Shepherds In The Fields. A Mum, Her Son, Their Academy

📙 Catherine Munro is a good mum but her son is heading off the rails - and she's going frantic.After returning from a job on a South Pacific island, she now faces the same anxieties as too many London families - drugs in the bogs and knives in the playground. This year already, 15 teenagers have been stabbed to death in London alone. Does Catherine try to game the system, like some of her middle-class friends, or does she plot an escape?The knotty moral and emotional themes of Shepherds In The Fields will resonate with all parents struggling with teenagers at home, at times like these, in cities like ours.Chris Moore started his writing career on Cosmopolitan magazine. His previous books have been described as ‘wonderful’ - Daily Mail; 'funny and scabrous’ - The Daily Telegraph; 'Pick of the Year, 2016' - British Historical Writers Association; 'unforgettable' - The JournalistBuy Shepherds in the Fields today for a sharp but necessary lesson for anyone coping with 'skool' as austerity bites and inequalities widen.