Mrs May is a primary schoolteacher, married to an ambitious university don. She is on a mission to rescue a wayward teenager, Will (alias Whizz) Buckley, once a delightful child in her class at school, now running wild with a criminal gang. It is an odyssey, a quest that will take her into the squalid underbelly of the city, to the squats and drug dens, to the police stations and magistrates courts, and to the notorious youth prison that beckons to the feckless Whizz Buckley. And, as on any odyssey, there are Giants and Monsters lying in wait. The drug-fuelled violence of the city’s streets comes to visit Ginny May in the leafy suburbs where she lives. And worse, as she strives to unravel the twisted tangle of the boy’s psychology, this respectable schoolteacher becomes hopelessly lost in the dark labyrinth of her own psyche, risking everything to find salvation for the boy. David Pick's is a new and important voice on the block: acute observation, accomplished writing, and a story that sucks you in from page one. A fine read. Graham Hurley, author of the best-selling D/I Faraday series. David Pick has produced a blistering read, which, through medium of personal tragedy and redemption explores a subject too often hidden from the public gaze, the effect on an individual who does not conform to the restrictions of the system and falls through a gap that lacks any kind of safety net. To bring about change in a troubled life it takes only one person to care, but that sometimes comes at a cost to the individual concerned. This is the territory explored in Mrs May in a psycho-sexual roller coaster that is impossible to put down. Jack Ludlow, author of The Burning Sky