Life, love, families and school: it can all get on top of you at times. In I Love You So Shut Up and Other Stories, Maureen Stewart explores relationships between families and peer groups, at home, at school and on holiday. Gina is thirteen, boy mad and has an older brother who is a pain. Gary is nearly fifteen, a surfie whose life had been 'pretty straight' until Lumpy Larry came along. Jackie, fourteen, finds herself the object of affection of a seven-year-old boy at the bus stop. (Publisher's blurb, back cover).