Book description
Spirit On The Water takes you on a voyage of eleven very different
cricket tours. The tours include Taverners jaunts to the Balearics, an
Aborigine team visiting England in 1868, Australia trying to win in
India, Sydney Barnes in South Africa, Wally Hammond Down Under and
more. The lively conversational style which made Mike Harfield's
previous book, Not Dark Yet, so popular appears again, along with a
cornucopia of cricket. Most of the time it is the cricket which lives
in the memory; occasionally contemporary events intervene. Always the
journey is entertaining. Surrey and England batsman Mark Butcher gets
us into the mood in his excellent Foreword and then it's off on the
first tour.
Mike Harfield used to work for a large multi-national company (think
Tony Curtis talking to Marilyn Monroe on the beach in Some Like it Hot).
He was made redundant in the early 1990s. After a while, the company
thought that it had made a mistake and so asked him back. A few years
later they realised that actually it hadn't been a mistake, and made him
redundant again. For this last act he was, and continues to be,
eternally grateful. It enabled him to watch virtually every ball of the
2005 Ashes series and write Not Dark Yet. Every cloud has a silver
lining, except of course when it brings rain to prevent an England
victory. During the summer he plays cricket for the Ash Tree CC at
Prestbury in Cheshire. His first book, Not Dark Yet, was published in
2008. Surrey and England
