Respect: A raw, gritty drama you won't put down
Jan 2014 · Hachette UK
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'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
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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128 reviews
Anna Anderton-franc
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April 4, 2023
This is one of the best books I've read in a long time... I hope that there is a follow-up! It would definitely make a brilliant film. It's the fifth one I've read by the same author, I'll be buying the next one shortly... Her knowledge and awareness of differential cultures and lifestyles is spot on, using I believe, just the right amount of Caribbean expletives and dialogue which can often drown the narrative when overused. The storyline has different twists and turns the outcome of which is not always expected.
Amanda Ludlow
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March 23, 2015
One of the best books I have read in a while made me angry, sad, happy and I could not put it down gutted when it ended I wanted to read more about chantell leon and anton
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Jennie Marshall
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November 1, 2014
Great page turner as always. Mandasue Heller is my favourite author by far love all her work!!! Can't wait for her latest book to be released!!!
About the author
Mandasue Heller was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents which have since become the background to her novels. Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.
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