The Boy Done Good

I am reading a good book at the moment:

The Boy Done Good: Darren Mooney the First Twenty Years published by Hard Press-ed.

It's the rags to riches story of a 20yr old Premiership footballer. It's generally better than other's in it's field because it isn't ghost-written. Below is a random excerpt from the chapter 'Giving Something Back':

"17th July 2008

It was my birthday and I woke up at the usual time of 10:30am, as excited as a kid on Christmas day. Kelly had been acting well suspiciously over the last few days. She had been really secretive and kept going out of the room to make phone calls. I knew she was up to something. So here I was on my birthday morning, and she was no where in sight!

I went down stairs and had some cereal and I checked my emails. An hour must have passed and there was no sign of Kelly anywhere. I tried ringing her mobile but it was switched off. I thought "What's going on?" Then I tried to ring her mum and her's was engaged as well. Because there was nothing that I could do, I went for a swim and a bit of a work out. The gaffer had given me the day off training because of my birthday but I still like to keep fit.

Finally, in the afternoon I got a call from Kerry. I said "Where've you been, I've been trying to ring you? It's been doing me head in." Kerry just told me to come to the Devonshire, but not the front bit, that's the pub, but the back bit which is the reception suite. "Ah, man" I thought, I was well excited. I quickly got showered and changed. I decided to put my best rolex on, with the diamonds and put on my new Armani suit that I got for the club dinner. As it was my birthday I decided I'd take the Ferrari out for a spin. It's great, goes really fast and what's best is that there's a Satnav that tells me where the speed cameras are. I got there in about 5 minutes!!!

When I went in the lights were off, in the room. Suddenly, there was a big flash and a big noise and all the lights went on. Kerry, her mum, the gaffer and all the lads were there shouting surprise. "woa, mental!" I said. If that was a surprise, you should of seen my face when they brought my present out... it was another Ferrari. What a big shock! I knew Kerry was up to something because she kept asking me what my favourite car was.

It was the best birthday ever. It made me feel really good.