Book description
'Hundreds of people want to be in a band. They all get guitars and they
all play gigs and they all write songs, and they still never make
it.'There's a big difference between being a rock star and a pop idol -
Will and Danny know which they'd prefer to be. They form the group Happy
and it seems they are on the way to realising their ambitions. But when
Happy's first gig is cut short by a fire at the venue, Will struggles to
cope with his bitter disappointment and retreats into his private world,
rejecting everyone around him. His girlfriend, Beth turns to Danny for
comfort and their friendship soon becomes something more. With nothing
left for him at home, Will leaves for London to stay with his
session-musician father and to follow his dream.
Keith Gray was born and brought up in Grimsby and knew from an early
age that he wanted to be a writer. When he received 0% for his
accountancy exams he decided to pursue his dream.
Since then, he has gone on to win the Angus Book Award and the
silver medal in the Smarties Prize. He has twice been shortlisted for
the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Booktrust Teen
Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Rave reviews about his
writing have appeared in every broadsheet. Keith was a judge for the
Blue Peter Book Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Bookstrust
Teen Prize and reviews regularly for the Guardian.
Keith is now a full-time writer living in Edinburgh.
