Respect

''One of the bad girls of gritty crime'' Daily Mirror Chantelle has everything going against her. She''s a good student who only wants to pass her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew up. But now her feckless mother has taken off for Spain with her latest boyfriend and she''s single-handedly raising her tearaway nine-year-old brother Leon. She thinks her worst problem is the debt collectors at the door. But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have given him a mobile phone, a knife - and some drugs to hide in her flat.A part-time job seems to be the answer to Chantelle''s prayers. But the violence is about to come home to her - with a vengeance. And the only person who''s offering any help seems to be just as bad as the people she''s trying to escape from . . . ''A cracking read that will chill you to the bone'' Sun on Two-Faced''Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel'' Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not

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