Film of a 13-year-old boy flying round the Earth in a home-made spaceship brings the world's media to Horsepool's Hill. He announces is going on a day trip to Mars, an adventure matched in danger only by his new-found fame. Paul Sutton fuses the arts of science and storytelling, within a collage of pop culture, philosophy and humour, to detail the coming of age of an English boy growing up in an era of big technology and big government. An elegiac novel about innocence and responsibility.

"A richly imaginative fusion of Carl Sagan, Jules Verne and The Little Prince."