ASBO

I'm sure this novel will appeal to anyone who's found increasing incivility in the youth today, although having it set in the county where I live was a little off-putting! Of course I know that this is fiction, but it does lead one to the inevitable conclusion that this sort of thing can quite easily happen to any family at any time, and that is a sad state of affairs.

A few minor errors, just to keep my hand in - "beneath the scolding stream" (scold and scald are different words, of course). "hold up much hope" (isn't it usually to hold out, rather than up?), and "a slither of hope", almost up there with the solider in the number of times I see this. Slither is of course a verb. Sliver, meaning a small (thin usually?) amount, is of course the intent in this sentence.