Teenage Stories

Last week I rescued a little red table from a rubbish skip.  In its former life it stored books in a school library.  Initially I thought it would be useful in the studio to hold paints and brushes, but after a little bit of scrubbing to remove old labels and calcified chewing gum, it found its way in pride of place in our main bedroom.

I like to think that this table has a story or two to tell and not just from the canon of teenage fiction it once held - novels from the likes of Robert Cormier, Diana Wynn Jones and J K Rowling, amongst others.  Over the years countless teenagers gathered around it in whispered conversations, sharing secrets, making friends.