Swings and Roundabouts

I suppose it makes a change to read about a stage-struck boy discovering, as they always do, 'it's not always easy . . . it's a tough business, kiddo, and them as can't take it knows what they can do.' Jason Miller longs for his first professional job out of the Allyson Dramatic Academy. His boasts about a commercial contract do not endear him to the real folk back on his London council estate, and even less so when it proves to be all hot air! Fortunately fame and a lesson in professionalism come from a cycling proficiency promotion and the ending is nicely neatened off. The strict adherence to Cockney dialect will put off some readers - most kids I know like talking to be 'written proper' not realistically!