A Teenage Odyssey — David Brining

This epic for a new millennium describes teenager Adam Lycett's journey from comfortable home to cardboard box when he flees his violent stepfather to find his real father somewhere in contemporary London, a Dickensian cityscape populated by gin-swilling, pill-popping juveniles bent on burglary, mugging and sex, by fat-cat lawyers and bankers swindling their clients, by an idle aristocracy abusing the poor and by people living, and dying, under bridges. Oliver Twist for the Trainspotting generation with a Britpop soundtrack...