
' Deeply moving' The Financial Times David is sixteen A pretty ordinary boy in most ways
- he just wants to hang out in his bedroom reading his dad's old comics Comics that are full of his heroes
- those figures whose lives are charmed special unique Life hasn't been easy recently for David though His father died just a couple of years ago he has a fractious relationship with his mum & he has fallen out with his best friend But David has a secret which he hasn't told anyone He has superpowers He can soar through the air he has superhearing he feels & hears everything super-keenly So life should be easier then shouldn't it? But somehow it's not
- & when David gets involved with the girl next door gorgeous Holly Harper he begins to realise just how very complicated it can get David's harbouring another secret a deeper darker one & on this journey from boyhood to manhood will he have the courage to face up to it?