A01=Jennie Walker
Author_Jennie Walker
Category=FBA
Clever sports sporting
Contemporary writing
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Families woman
Funny moving books
Husband lover fans
Novel about cricket
Simple readable
Test match England India
Understated original
Product details
- ISBN 9780747598756
- Weight: 80g
- Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘Very original ... I loved it' - Mick Jagger
'This is a little marvel ... funny, clever, illuminating, deeply kind-hearted' - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
‘A lovely little novel ... written with beguiling simplicity' - Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph
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A perfectly-crafted, funny and moving masterpiece about love, family, passion and whether or not one should always play by the rules.
Friday: as a Test match between England and India begins, a woman's attention is torn between her husband's insistence on explaining the rules of cricket, her lover's preference for mystery, and the worrying disappearance of her sixteen-year-old stepson.
By Tuesday night the outcome of the match will become clear - but whatever happens, the lives of the players will be changed forever.
Jennie Walker is a pen-name of Charles Boyle, an award-winning poet. Charles lives in London with his wife and two sons.
