'My old school, St Stella's, only goes to Year Ten and most of my
friends now go to Pius Senior Collage, but my mother wouldn't allow it
because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she
didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my
mother you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she
is the Queen of Limitation Placers in my life.' Francesca is at the
beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boys' school that
has just started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and,
to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move
from her bed. But Francesca had not counted on the fierce loyalty of her
new friends, or falling in love, or finding that it's within her power
to bring her family back together.