High and Low by Amanda Craig modern fiction An Admirable Point recuperates the

An Admirable Point recuperates the exclamation mark from its much maligned place at the bottom of the punctuation hierarchy

power and greed

' - Belfast Telegraph'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was

The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter

one in four of the British population will be taking these drugs

High and Low by Amanda Craig modern fiction An Admirable Point recuperates theIn the worst day of the year, and on the twelfth day of Christmas, a group of people come under siege in Cross St, North London. A gang is hunting for a child who has been drawn into crime with tragic results; there is a riot outside the church where asylum seekers have been sleeping, and many cities have descended into fierce protests. Inside the Literary Cafe, a group of writers, bakers and shopkeepers are sheltering. Their petty feuds and past