Book description
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.
This beginner's guide to the infuriatingly perverse game of cricket
is a love letter addressed both 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, very funny
and as much about fathers
and daughters, love and life, as it is about cricket.
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.
