There’s Only One Danny Garvey follows a once promising young footballer who returns to his tiny Scottish village with his dreams in ruins and a dark secret he cannot escape. As he reconnects with people and confronts his past, hope, redemption and personal truth emerge. This book is for readers who enjoy heartfelt literary fiction about resilience and small town life.
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Scottish BookThere’s Only One Danny Garvey: Shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year (Paperback)
Author: David F. Ross
£9.95
There’s Only One Danny Garvey follows a once promising young footballer who returns to his tiny Scottish village with his dreams in ruins and a dark secret he cannot escape. As he reconnects with people and confronts his past, hope, redemption and personal truth emerge. This book is for readers who enjoy heartfelt literary fiction about resilience and small town life.
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Why we chose this book
There's Only One Danny Garvey is a warm, bruised novel we admired for its honesty, humour, and compassion for people learning to live with disappointment.
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Danny Garvey once seemed destined for something larger. At sixteen, his talent drew attention from professional clubs and the future appeared assured. Now, years later, he is back in Barshaw, the small Scottish village he never quite escaped, managing the struggling junior team he once played for.
His return carries more than disappointment. Thirteen years earlier, a single night altered several lives, and Danny has kept his part in it carefully hidden. In a place where memories linger and expectations are slow to fade, the past presses close. The chant that once followed him still echoes, affectionate and unforgiving in equal measure.
As Danny tries to hold a fragile team together, he is forced to reckon with what was lost and what might still be possible. This is literary fiction rooted in community and conscience, attentive to failure, loyalty and the difficult work of finding redemption where it is least expected.
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