I Predict a Riot. Catherine Bruton
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First published in Great Britain 2014
by Electric Monkey, an imprint of Egmont UK Limited
The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN
Text copyright © Catherine Bruton 2014
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
First e-book edition 2014
ISBN 978 1 4052 6719 9
eISBN 978 1 7803 1345 0
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library
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EGMONT
Our story began over a century ago, when seventeen-year-old Egmont Harald Petersen found a coin in the street. He was on his way to buy a flyswatter, a small hand-operated printing machine that he then set up in his tiny apartment.
The coin brought him such good luck that today Egmont has offices in over 30 countries around the world. And that lucky coin is still kept at the company’s head offices in Denmark.
For all my Peckham people, Clare, Howard, Nye, Nicola, James, Jo, Millie, Jonny, Joe and Elsie the Twinkle, with love.
CONTENTS
SCENE 1: MAGGIE’S HOUSE, BY THE SEA
SCENE 2: A PARK IN SOUTH LONDON
SCENE 3: CORONATION ROAD LIBRARY
SCENE 6: BEHIND THE FISH FACTORY
SCENE 8: OUTSIDE MAGGIE’S BEDROOM
SCENE 9: THE NEXT MORNING. CHOUDHARY’S ELECTRICAL STORE
SCENE 11: OUTSIDE THE STARFISH PROJECT
SCENE 13: OUTSIDE THE PICTURE GALLERY
SCENE 16: THE LOUNGE IN MAGGIE’S HOUSE
SCENE 19: CORONATION ROAD. DUSK
SCENE 20: CORONATION ROAD. EVENING
SCENE 21: CORONATION ROAD. THE NEXT DAY
SCENE 22: THE LOUNGE IN MAGGIE’S HOUSE
SCENE 23: BEHIND THE FISH FACTORY
SCENE 25: THE PARK. MOMENTS LATER
SCENE 26: THE PARK, A FEW MINUTES LATER
SCENE 27: A HOUSE BY THE SEA. ONE YEAR LATER
Praise for We Can be Heroes and Pop!, also by Catherine Bruton
SCENE 1: MAGGIE’S HOUSE, BY THE SEA
It’s been a year since everything happened, but I still have bad dreams. Dreams