9781473666726_

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
The Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year
The Times Sports Book of the Year
Telegraph Football Book of the Year

Ferriss wonderful memoir represents a twin triumph. He has endured every kind of setback in life but has invariably reinvented himself; and his writing is a pure pleasure. The Sunday Times

Enough depth and humanity to make your average football autobiography look like a Ladybird book. Telegraph

A masterpiece of the genre Brian McNally

Football memoirs rarely produce great literature but Ferriss The Boy on the Shed is a glistening exception. Guardian

Fascinating and stylishly told. David Walsh, The Sunday Times

The Boy on the Shed is a story of love and fate. At 16, Paul Ferris becomes Newcastle Uniteds youngest-ever first-teamer. Like many a tricky winger from Northern Ireland, he is hailed as the new George Best.

As a player and later a physio and member of the Magpies managerial team, Pauls career acquaints him not only with Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish and Bobby Robson, Ruud Gullit, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer but also with injury, insecurity and disappointment.

Yet this autobiography is more than a tale of the vagaries of sporting fortune. It begins during The Troubles in a working-class Catholic family in the Protestant town of Lisburn, near Belfast. After a childhood scarred by his mothers illness and sectarian hatred, Paul meets the love of his life, his future wife Geraldine.

Talented and carefree on the pitch, shy and anxious off it, he earns a tilt at stardom. His first spell at Newcastle turns sour, as does his return as a physio, although obtaining a Masters degree shows him what he could achieve away from football.

When Paul qualifies as a barrister, a career in Law beckons. Instead, a craving to prove himself in the game draws him back to St James Park as part of Shearers management triumvirate - with unfortunate consequences.

Written with brutal candour, dark humour and consummate style, The Boy on the Shed is a riveting and moving account of a life less ordinary

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Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
The Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year
The Times Sports Book of the Year
Telegraph Football Book of the Year

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Ferriss wonderful memoir represents a twin triumph. He has endured every kind of setback in life but has invariably reinvented himself; and his writing is a pure pleasure. The Sunday Times

Enough depth and humanity to make your average football autobiography look like a Ladybird book. Telegraph

A masterpiece Brian McNally

Football memoirs rarely produce great literature but Ferriss The Boy on the Shed is a glistening exception. Guardian

Fascinating and stylishly told. David Walsh, bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins
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Written with brutal candour, dark humour and consummate style, The Boy on the Shed is a riveting and moving account of a life less ordinary.
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The Boy on the Shed:A remarkable sporting memoir with a foreword by Alan Shearer

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