Nick Hornby : Slam
Sam is in a slam. A full on, face in the wall, bone-breaking smasher and this time its life that has him in Grind City, not his beloved skateboard.
When teenagers Alicia and Sam find they are propelled to parenthood as a result of their puppy love liaison, two young lives are changed beyond all recognition. Hornby plunges us with them through the journey of adolescent demise in his familiar North London narrative, charting the highs and lows of growing up abruptly in nine months with Tony Hawk as life coach.
Warm, witty, and as Horby-esque as you would expect this is another beauty from Islington’s finest that certainly hasn’t missed a trick.
Jo Gifford
Penguin, 2007
