This is how my synopsis stands at the moment:

Memoirs of a Bar Steward are the accounts of Jacob Hank Cox young 18 year old life. Jacob sees himself as a young man with a magnificent future ahead of him, guaranteed because he is brilliantly clever, and practically wonderful in everyway, or at least that is how he sees himself. His life was all planned out. He was about to pass all of his A levels, get into the best university in the country and eventually become the prime minster of the United Kingdom, and best of all he was finally about to escape his most heinous family. A family which consists of a mother whose business involves beating the living pootang out of people and sticking their pet’s heads up where the sun don’t shine if you're unfortunate enough to run a pub, club, shop or even a paper round on the west side of Birmingham and you didn’t pay her O’Shea’s clan not to do these lovely things to you. A ratty face Father who was in the business of running up debt and then running away. A rule dodging, good life living, carefree identical twin who’s the exact opposite of himself in every way, another brother who everyone mistakenly believes is the one who is Gods gift to everything and a psychotic 10 year old sister who Jacob fears just might be more crazy and dangerous than the lot of them put together.

However, Jacob soon discovers that he is not going to be able to go to the best university in the country, in fact he is not going to be able to go to university at all, and instead of escaping a family who he regards as the shackles holding him down, stopping his rise to greatness, he is in fact about to embark on a whole new adventure with all of them as they all make the sudden and suspicious move to a new life in Devon, where the family is going to take over a seaside pub, a business which Jacob believe could be his new springboard to success. Soon Jacob discovers that if his family is his shackles, then his own delusions of grandeur, immaturity and vanity is the giant anchor that they are all linked to.

This is a story about chasing your dreams and the struggle to hold onto them, at any cost. The pub that the Cox family moves into may possibly be the solution to all of their individual problems, but the business is not the easy success that they were lead to believe it would be and if they want to stay then they must act fast or else they will all be returning to the Midlands before the summer is over, which would be an unimaginable nightmare for each of them for their own different reasons.

Join Jacob on his journey, along with his family, where he’ll face terrible perils, monstrous foes and maybe love (or just deadly sex). Memoirs of a bar steward is a humorous tale about growing up and finding out what the world is really like, well the world of a Cox that is.