Chapter 1
As usual, the British summer took everyone by surprise. It went from wet and rainy one day, to blistering hot the next. After a day of looking at pale, sweaty people squeezed into last year’s summer clothes, Luke took himself off to buy some new cut-offs and T-shirts as none of his stuff fit him anymore. Come to think of it, he didn’t possess a pair of cut-offs. He’d never worn them. Smiling, he wandered into the kind of shop that he never imagined being able to walk into, let alone buy anything. He peered out of the changing room, checked there was no-one about and then sidled out to look at the new get-up in the full-length mirror. He turned this way and that. He didn’t look half bad. The smile became a grin. The pale khaki shorts were smart, and the white T-shirt showed off h
