In this audiobook the space craze sweeps through Linbury Court School and the corridors reverberate with 'voom voom' noises as rockets, piloted by 'Butch Breakaway' Jennings and his 'bald headed scientist,' Darbishire, take off for the moon. As Mr. Carter prophesies, the craze wears off, but not before Jennings has stuck his head into trouble; nor before he and Darbishire have helped General Merridew, that peppery but most distinguished of Old Boys, to recapture some of the wilder moments of his lost boyhood.