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Looking for title/author of a 60's-70's novel of near future dystopian UK. It featured a family beset by "yobs" - that was the term actually used in the book. Yob culture was ascendant. There was a motorcycle gang that took over a young woman's family's house, and the novel ended with fundamentalists organizing throughout the country, fighting back and winning. Any ideas?
Also just remembered the fundamentalists dressed in robes like monks.
Pendulum (1968) by John Christopher.
As per a review on Goodreads:
A failing economy, rising permissiveness, youth violence and rampant disorder lead to the fall of government in the UK and rule by mobs of youth motorcycle gangs. An upper middleclass family suffers deprivations and the occupation of their home by one of these gangs as the pendulum of society swings away from disorder to the rise of a religious brotherhood that soon takes on the gangs and creates an equally unappealing future.
