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What I Love About Cricket Sandy Balfour

What I Love About Cricket By Sandy Balfour

What I Love About Cricket by Sandy Balfour


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Summary

The author and the skateboarding Boy Wonder are from different universes, but when a broken ankle scupper's the boy's holiday plans he reticently agrees to accompany the author to Lord's. After a rain-interrupted start to their relationship things begin to click and slowly but surely cricket creeps into their shared summer.

What I Love About Cricket Summary

What I Love About Cricket by Sandy Balfour

What I Love (About Cricket) is the story of a summer when a 'master' cricket obsessive teaches his novice 'pupil' the wisdom of the game. Sandy Balfour is cast as the supposed master and his sixteen-year-old daughter's new boyfriend - the skateboarding Boy Wonder - is the reluctant pupil. Sandy and the teenager Boy Wonder are from different universes, but when a broken ankle scupper's the boy's holiday plans he reticently agrees to accompany Sandy to Lord's. After a rain-interrupted start to their relationship things begin to click and slowly but surely cricket creeps into their shared summer. This beginner's guide to the infuriatingly perverse game of cricket is a love letter address equally to those who utterly fail to understand it and to those who need reminding why they fell in love in the first place. What unfolds is wonderfully observed and very funny and as much about fathers and daughters, love and life as it is about cricket.

About Sandy Balfour

Sandy Balfour plays and watches a lot of cricket. In his spare time he is a journalist, author and social activist. He is chair of the UK's leading Fairtrade chocolate company and has written four previous books including the critically acclaimed Vulnerable in Hearts and Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8). He lives in London with his girlfriend and their three children.

Additional information

GOR001188602
9780091927318
0091927315
What I Love About Cricket by Sandy Balfour
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Ebury Publishing
20090402
288
N/A
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