REVIEW QUOTES
In the autumn of 1997, quite out of the blue, a book appeared from an unknown author which won unanimous acclaim as an outstanding contribution to cricket’s literature.
Ian Davidson
Northampton
Evening Telegraph
Cameos of recall are two-a-penny, ten-a-page in a quite riveting new book, privately published by first-time author Stephen Chalke. Unquestionably the Book of the Year.
Frank Keating
The Guardian
Here is a fresh pen, comic and serious, nostalgic and critical. Chalke extracts from the players of the 1950s pearls of reminiscence and frank thoughts on the present.
E.W. Swanton The
Week (naming it as one of his six best cricket books)
A charming
book. I somehow doubt if a book forty years from the Nineties will have such
rich, fond and amusing reminiscences.
Michael Parkinson
Daily
Telegraph
The writing is an unalloyed delight because it is stylish and wise
without ever being obtrusive. It weaves together a wonderful sense of being
there and having a context in which to place events.
Warwick
Franks
Editor, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, Australia
A minor classic.
Derek Hodgson The Independent