A Teen’s Guide to Modern Manners

A girl texts so much that she forgets how to speak.

A boy refuses to shower and is adopted by gorillas.

A dozen others suffer from tiny teenage flaws, and meet with grisly comeuppances.

These joyous poetic portraits navigate the jungle of adolescent problems… and form an unintentional guide to modern teenage manners. Written in rhyming couplets and accompanied by Jack Parham’s wonderfully funny illustrations, this book is the perfect stocking-filler for anyone who was, is, or will be a teenager.

(Jack and I were experts on teenagehood when we created the book, being teens ourselves. Alas, time has marched on and now we’re total amateurs.)

A Teen’s Guide was published by Little, Brown in 2016. You can buy it on Amazon here – or, even better, order it from your local bookshop!

Reviews

“Witty, hilarious, and completely delightful.” – The Huffington Post

“Delightfully funny and poetic portraits of modern teens.” – Buzzfeed

“Hilarious. Bart Simpson meets Adrian Mole at a party thrown by The Inbetweeners. Smart, smelly, spotty and so laugh-out-loud funny it might get you a detention...” – Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees, authors of We’re Going on a Bar Hunt