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|title=Respect

|author=Mandasue Heller

|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton

|date=January 2014

|website=http://www.mandasueheller.com/

|video=yA6FWhEKGJM

|summary=Fifteen year old Chantelle finds a part time job more than she bargained for in a gritty crime novel that reads more like a book about dysfunctional families and relationships than crime.

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Growing up is difficult in the best of circumstances. The council estate where Chantelle has grown up in isn't decaying - it is dead and rotten. It has become a holding place for those who are condemned to a life of crime, at least when they aren't serving time. It is the type of place that saps ambition and hope from its unlucky inhabitants. But Chantelle is determined to break out. She has avoided all the pitfalls waiting for children in her situation, avoiding drugs, alcohol, crime and dead end relationships.