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In the summer of 1961 everything is getting better in ‘never had it so good’ England. Especially if you are three-year-old Simon Waiters. You are the apple of your parents’ eyes, you’re adorably cute… and you’ve just been photographed with the world’s most famous man, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin…

In the winter at the end of 1999 Simon Waiters, a 42-year-old prison teacher, reckons that his life has been going downhill for the past four decades…

Rocket Boy – part comedy, part tragedy – is a tough but tender and ultimately upbeat love story from Here in the Cull Valley author John Wheatcroft.