GOALKEEPER

RUBERY Shortisted 2023

One 'alone, but not lonely' boy's triumph over adversity, motivated by his dream of becoming a professional footballer and a longing for truth and connection. Street's award-winning childhood memoir is a sensitive and honest portrayal, through a poetic autistic lens, of growing up with learning differences and epilepsy in an unconventional family during the 1950s and 60s.A unique and vivid social document of the period, highlighting much of the discrimination still faced by minority and disabled communities today.