David Nobbs 
Second From Last In The Sack Race 
(Henry Pratt)

From the bestselling author of Going Gently and the hugely successful autobiography I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today.Born into poverty, saddled with a born loser and parrot-strangler for a dad, short sighted and ungainly, young Henry Pratt doesn’t exactly have a head start in life.But in David Nobbs s brilliantly funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood, unathletic and over-imaginative little Pratt proves he can stick up for himself with the stoic good nature of the great British underdog