Going Out

Unspectacular but thoroughly professional transfer of Phil Redmond's excellent TV series into novel form. As far as I can remember, it stick closely to the programmes, detailing the various scrapes of four lads and two girls hanging about between unsatisfactory visits to the Job Centre. Such changing focus is inevitably more suited to the screen than to print but this is definitely one of the better products of box-book collusion. There's a good deal more realism than you usually find, though, conversely, the sense of start-to-finish plot development to keep you going is restricted. Should rekindle some memories and maybe prod some people into asking questions.