Frank Cottrell Boyce

Liam Digby is so unusually tall that people think he should act like an adult, which leads him to compete against adults for a chance to go into space. 12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult...