Marliese Arold Angel (Angelface) Fischer Generation, 1999. 212pp. ISBN 3 596 80306 3 This book for the teenage market is about a girl's life with a group of streetkids, why she joins them, how she fares, and her hesitant return to 'normal' life. The key to her troubles is, as so often, a broken home. Father has left to live with another woman. Mother has responded by becoming an alcoholic. Svenja (nicknamed Angel because of her beautiful looks) makes a run for it, goes to sleep on a bench in the park, and wakes up to find her money gone. A beggar befriends her and through him she meets the group - Nico, the leader, his right-hand man Mr. O, and Psycho, a thief, with whom she gradually falls in love. She also makes friends with Zade, a young Turkish prostitute. Echoes in all this of Carnegie Medallist Robert Swindell's Stone Cold. But Angel is an original and absorbing tale in its own right. Marliese Arold was born in 1958. She studied to be a librarian, and has been a freelance writer since 1983. She writes primarily for children and young adults. Translation rights available from S. Fischer Verlag GmbH Hedderichstrasse 114 D-60596 Frankfurt am Main Tel: 0049 69 6062 328 Fax: 0049 69 6062 370 Fischer Generation is a new list for teenagers and young adults launched by S.Fischer Verlag in Spring 1999 to complement their list for younger children, Fischer Schatzinsel.