Danny, the Champion of the World is a warm, adventurous novel that celebrates the bond between a father and son. Danny lives a seemingly idyllic life with his kind, unconventional father, William, in a caravan behind a filling station. Danny believes his father is the most wonderful man in the world, until he discovers his father has a secret passion: poaching pheasants from the estate of the wealthy, mean-spirited local landowner, Mr. Victor Hazell. Together, they devise a brilliantly audacious and hilarious plot to poach every single pheasant from Hazell’s woods in a single night, using a clever trick involving sleeping powder.
