The Distance Diet When a rogue planet threatens

When a rogue planet threatens a new Human colony

so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives

followed by screeching tyres and a screaming engine

A Times Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

Her husband Jimmy can do no right

The Distance Diet When a rogue planet threatensIn the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He begins to collect cuttings about his hero from the newspapers, an obsession that grows into a ragged archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks both insist on and obscure a book about his boyhood. He turns to his brother Branko, a sound editor, for help with recovering their shared past. But can a story ever belong equally to