num_pages: 352
description: Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now though the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened.The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of. But as he navigates his isolation and his desperate need for recognition a sudden and thrilling encounter offers him the promise of an escape and Tom is forced to question whether he can reconcile his supressed desires with his dreams of success.Leah the captains wife has almost forgotten the dreams she once held for her career her marriage. Moving again as her husband is transferred from club to club she is lost disillusioned with where life has taken her.A Natural delves into the heart of a professional football club: the pressure the loneliness the threat of scandal the fragility of the body and the struggle on and off the pitch with conforming to the person that everybody else expects you to be.
language: English
title: A Natural
publisher: JONATHAN CAPE