Alison Healy has worked as a journalist with the Irish Times for almost 17 years, and with the Farmers Journal for eight years before that. She specialises in food and farming issues and is currently on a career break. This is her first children’s book and she is also ghost writing the autobiography of Anna May McHugh, managing director of the National Ploughing Championships. One of her short stories, `Grace’, was selected for the Stories for the Ear compilation produced by Kildare Arts Service last October. She was also shortlisted in Fish Publishing’s Flash Fiction Awards announced earlier this year.

This delightful book reads like a mashup of Sue Townsend's hilarious The Queen and I with bits of Roddy Doyle's Rover Trilogy. And although it's lighthearted, it has an important message for kids who feel "different" and for those who are hopeless at sports. Generously sprinkled with gorgeous illustrations by Fintan Taite.