The seventh Chapter

On the next day, he writes something is his secret book:
"One day he won't hit me and I'll have a real relationship with him, like Spider does with his dad. I want him to respect me. I know to love him but I can’t because he won’t let me. I know he was a great squash player, better than I'll ever be. I never saw him play but Mum says he was brilliant, and I've read the reports so he must have been good. And he learnt his squash in Australia and Australia is supposed to breed top squash players, so he keeps telling me. But we don’t live in Australia."
After this, he talks with his mum. She tells him, that his father is only so hard because when he was young, he have nobody who helped him. And he doesn't want it for his son.
This chapter is important, you gets many impressions of Jamie's feelings and the background of the life of his father.