Book synopsis: Truth was, Megs didn't know anything about Australia except that it was a long way away, it was sunny, there were kangaroos, his friends weren't there, and they called football "soccer". What was there to look forward to about that? Edward "Megs" Morrison is starting at a new school. That's hard enough, but to do it in a foreign land makes it even more uncomfortable.

At least Megs speaks the language... sort of. Luckily, football is an international password, and football just happens to be something Edward Morrison loves - but the school has no proper team, because no one is available to coach. Megs makes an unlikely friend of a quirky old Hungarian school cleaner, but will he ever make friends his own age? Will he ever feel at home on the other side of the planet? And with no school team, how will Megs quench his thirst for competitive football?

Schwarzer reveals: "It's about a football-mad kid from Liverpool, who struggles to adapt to his new environment when he immigrates to Australia with his family. Basically, the only things he knows about Australia are Neighbours, Home and Away and that it's full of kangaroos! He doesn't think that football will be a big game in Australia, but he soon finds that kids down under are just as football crazy as they are in England and the book tells the tale of how he and his friends try to set up a school football team.

It's a story about how football can break down barriers, as his new friends are all from different ethnic backgrounds. The book's writer, Neil, is English, while my parents are German, so we both had different experiences from our childhood in terms of ethnic backgrounds, as did our wives. A lot of our experiences are in this book."

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