Cocky, cheeky, 'gallus' joker, Charlie, and his best mate - sensitive, academic Danny - battle to make sense of the world in a 1970s Scottish comprehensive school. The unlikely pair must navigate their way through numerous obstacles - parents, teachers, girls, eccentric characters and the all-important body image. Can their friendship and resilience defeat the constant threat of school bullies? Follow the teenagers' adventures in this hilarious, hard-hitting, rites-of-passage novella.