Does Everyone Stare the Way I Do Author:Andrew Muir Girls think Sting's a hunk....he's got great cheek bones. I practiced my Sting impersonation in the bedroom mirror...sucking my cheeks in so hard my face started to ache...and now I had a mouth ulcer....I winced when Alison kissed me. Sting could keep his ruddy handsome cheekbones!' In 1978, shy, unassuming teenager Tim James is obsessed with fo... more »ur charismatic blondes; the three members of The Police, the hottest band on the planet and Alison, the most achingly gorgeous girl in his class... But the course of teenage love seldom runs true. Soon realising that Alison prefers his best friend, Tim reluctantly turns his attention toher mate ... and in doing so, unwittingly puts himself on a collision course with the school's biggest bully .... A poignant, bittersweet and funny collection of interlinked stories, recalling the pleasure and pain of growing up in the New-Wave era.'« less