When American artist Xanthe Pritchard-Benz comes to spend the summer in a small coastal community in northeast Scotland, teenager Robert Strachan is looking forward to meeting her again. But this summer there's another new arrival, a young man with the poise and charisma of a born leader. He is known as 'The Big J'...

About love, hero-worship and the losses and gains of growing up, The Big J evokes the confusion and eagerness of the transition to adulthood.

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