Marcus, a 14-year-old footballing genius, keeps getting into deep trouble at school. He is, by far, the best player at Ducie High, a tough, ethnically diverse inner-city school. The team gets tantalisingly close to Schools League and Cup glory.
His Nigerian father, a wannabe soul singer with a day job as a postman, and his English mother, who cold-calls double glazing, are at a loss about what to do with the wayward Marcus.
Dealing with deafness, shifting friendships, crazy parents and a ‘special measures’ school, Marcus will have to gather all the strength he can find – both from others and within himself.
