Tamara Joanne Taylor
Lizzie and Alex are soon pushed out of Ryan’s mind.
Largely because sixth form entails some kind of thinking, some kind of plan for the rest of his life—and it’s one that he hasn’t really made yet. Vague hypotheses about doing chemistry at university are just about all he has, and when he realises that even Tom and Jennifer have better ideas, any notions of figuring out Alex’s family mess are dropped hastily in favour of figuring out Ryan’s own future.
Tom is all talk of the police, swaggering around bragging and saying how he’ll be a super-cop in the Met in five years. Never mind that the Met is in London and they aren’t, but whatever. He’s going to tackle criminals and bust drug gangs and paedophile rings and protect everyone, like some kind of superhero without t
