The Season Ticket

A heart-warming, side-splitting tale of two tearaway football dreamers eking out a life worth living in 1990s Tyneside. Sewell is strong, Gerry is small yet crafty. Both are skint. But the pair have one big dream: two season tickets to Newcastle United. For that they need money. And they'll do just about anything to get it. Riotously funny, profoundly moving, The Season Ticket is a cracking coming-of-age adventure, and a portrait of Northern England alight with both ruthless poverty and human tenderness. 'A beautiful book, a Kes for our times, which carefully measures out its humour and its sympathy' Guardian 'Roddy Doyle meets the Angel of the North in an engrossing tale' Daily Telegraph 'A study of loyalty, love and friendship, often grimly amusing and sometimes very, very funny' Independent