The best player in England. The worst club in England. A secret that won't stay under water.
Danny Stroud has won everything. Four league titles. Two Champions Leagues. His face is on billboards and his name is on the back of half the shirts in the country. He's the best footballer in England, and he hasn't felt a thing in fourteen years.
Then Barry Pike turns up. Barry owns Pike's Discount Carpets ("how can I floor you today?"). Barry also owns Cragmouth Town, bottom of League Two and sinking fast. And Barry knows exactly what happened on Cragmouth's harbour wall fourteen years ago.
So on transfer deadline day, the most famous footballer in the country joins a club with a Portakabin for a dressing room, a manager who talks mostly through mints, and a striker who does his post round before training. The press can't work out why he's there. The fans can't work out why he's there. Danny can't tell anyone.
The town he left behind has a very long memory. The harder Danny tries to keep his head down, the closer the past comes to the surface.
Funny, tense and big-hearted, Nutmeg is a story about football, friendship, second chances and the one thing you can't buy your way out of.
