''Chartbreak'' is a 1986 novel by British author

Gillian Cross Gillian Claire Cross (born December 24, 1945) is a British author of children's books. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for ''Wolf'' and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for '' The Great Elephant Chase''. She also wrote '' The Demon H ...

Plot

A girl called Janis Finch, known as "Finch", leaves home due to tension between her and her stepfather, and meets an unsigned rock band called Kelp in the cafe of a

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. She joins the band and they achieve chart success, including an appearance on ''

Top of the Pops ''Top of the Pops'' (''TOTP'') is a British record chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006. The programme was the world's longest-running weekly music show. For most of its histo ...

'' for their single "Face It". The lead singer of the band is Christie Joyce, and the other members are Job, Dave and Rollo.

A-level

The text was a source for OCR A-Level English Literature.OCR https://pastpapers.papacambridge.com/OCR/A-Level/English-Language-H069-H469/Assessment-Materials/76570-unit-f653-culture-language-and-identity-specimen.pdf

References

{{Reflist Novels by Gillian Cross 1986 British novels Novels about music Oxford University Press books