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Following on: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket
Emma John
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Description for Following on: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BM; WH; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
It's one thing to be 14 years old and a loser. It's one thing to be the class swot, and hopelessly infatuated with someone who doesn't know you exist. But what kind of teenager is besotted with an entire sports team - when the players are even bigger losers than she is? In 1993, while everyone else was learning Oasis lyrics and crushing on Kate Moss or Keanu, Emma John was obsessing over the England cricket team. She spent her free time making posters of the players she adored. She spent her pocket money on Panini stickers ... Read more
It's one thing to be 14 years old and a loser. It's one thing to be the class swot, and hopelessly infatuated with someone who doesn't know you exist. But what kind of teenager is besotted with an entire sports team - when the players are even bigger losers than she is? In 1993, while everyone else was learning Oasis lyrics and crushing on Kate Moss or Keanu, Emma John was obsessing over the England cricket team. She spent her free time making posters of the players she adored. She spent her pocket money on Panini stickers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472916891
SKU
V9781472916891
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About Emma John
Emma John is a writer and editor on the Guardian and the Observer. She is a former deputy editor of Observer Sport Monthly and The Wisden Cricketer and in 2008 she was the first woman to win a Sports Journalism Award. She lives in north London and has been on the MCC waiting list for 17 years, six months and ... Read more
Reviews for Following on: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket
Deftly comic, wonderfully true, for anyone who has ever thought that England, chasing 600 in the fourth innings, just might do it.
Gideon Haigh
A real treat of a book, that will gladden the hearts of any cricket lover over 25, and broaden the horizons of anyone under.
All Out Cricket
A gloriously funny yet ... Read more
Gideon Haigh
A real treat of a book, that will gladden the hearts of any cricket lover over 25, and broaden the horizons of anyone under.
All Out Cricket
A gloriously funny yet ... Read more