Quick synopsis of The Rotters Club anyone ?

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I read the rotters club when it first came out. I am now reading the sequel (can't even remember its name) but feel I am missing something as I can't remember what really happened in the rotters club. My copy is in a box somewhere (moved 3 months ago and no bookshelves yet !)

Anyone able to give me some quick pointers ?!

Thanks !

Ben Trotter: A romantic musician and writer who has fallen for Cicely, the most beautiful student at the adjoining girls' school.
Phillip Chase: Best friend of Ben he is heavily into prog-rock and attempts to form a band, name "Gandalf's Pikestaff".
Doug Anderton: A passionate writer and opinionated young man, Doug attempts to transfer the socialist values of his father Bill to his mostly middle-class school.
Colin Trotter: In middle management at the Longbridge factory.
Sheila Trotter: Ben's mother.
Paul Trotter: Ben's younger brother.
Lois Trotter: Paul and Ben's older sister she attends the adjoining girls school.
Malcolm: Amiable guitarist and self-professed 'Hairy Guy' Malcolm is Lois' boyfriend, whom he met when she answered his personal ad in the newspaper.
I read it ages ago as well. so I googled it and found this on wikipedia...
Bill Anderton: Shop steward at the Longbridge factory and an active Union man he begins an affair with one of his colleagues, Miriam.
Irene Anderton: Bill's wife and Doug's mother.
Miriam Newman: The attractive secretary at the Longbridge factory.
Claire Newman: Miriam's younger sister.
Sam Chase: Phillip's dad who works as a bus driver.
Barbara Chase: Wife of Sam and mother of Phillip, she begins an affair with Miles Plumb, her very own son's art teacher.
Miles Plumb: The flamboyant art teacher at King William's, the school the teenagers attend.
Cicely Boyd: The most beautiful girl at the adjoining girls school she is the object of many of the boys' affections, particularly Ben Trotter's.
Sean Harding: Attends King William's, Harding is viewed as the practical joker. He writes letters to the school newspaper, The Billboard, under the pseudonym Arthur Pusey-Hamilton.

Obviously this is not the fruit of my memory, I read the book ages ago... it's what I found in wikipedia!

thanks Franca - that helps but would also love to hear from anyone who can tell me what happened too !

Read it ages ago ... main memories...:
Ben is after Cecily all the way through, they DO get together right at the end.
Lois and her bf are victims of (???and IRA???) bomb - he is killed, she doesn't speak for ages. Ben really looks out for her
Um... some other stuff also happens...

I've just read this - I'm not sure that Ben and Cicely stay together long. Such a big deal is made out of their first sexual experience together that I had the impression that it might end up being the only time it would happen.

Miriam disappeared years ago and is presumed dead but we don't know if she really is dead or if she ran away.

The book is written as a story that Lois and Christopher's daughter tells Claire and Philips son when their parents meet up unexpectedly. They talk about Ben but they don't say whether he ended up with Cicely or not.

Let us know if the knew book is any good.

Just finished re-reading The Closed Circle (won't spoil it for you then!) - it had a useful synopsis of the Rotters' Club at the end.

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Thanks everyone - I can';t believe they've put a synopsis at the end - how bizarre. Right will go and read it.

Thanks all again.

I seem to remember that cicely leaves for the usa right after getting together with ben...