Joe Boateng’s burger-serving days are behind him, along with his childhood sweetheart and the kids who picked on him for his Ghanaian accent. Now he is a Premier League football star, he is never out of the papers and everyone wants a piece of him. But what happened to the good boy who stayed out of trouble?

Joe Guy is a story of identity, the corrupting power of celebrity and the tensions between African and Caribbean communities from the writer of Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads.