Summer Days Promise cover
Summer Days Promise
Summer Days Promise
Summer Days Promise
Summer Days Promise
Summer Days Promise
Summer Days Promise

Product details

Published 14 July 2022
ISBN 978-1-915237-10-1
Format Hardback, eBook
Pages 336
Dimensions 234 × 156 mm

Summer Days Promise

Paul Edwards

Price range: £4.99 through £22.00

A collection of some of cricket writer Paul Edwards’ best and most entertaining work.

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Description

Paul Edwards has a deep and abiding love of the game. And because of that, he has been immersed in its characters and characteristics for as long as he can remember. On Christmas Day, he likes to visit Lancashire League cricket grounds and savour the encounters long past and imagine those yet to come. Unusual, perhaps, but it illustrates his love for the sport. The expression ‘cricket mad’ could have been coined for him.

And Edwards is a beautiful writer. He can express the moods and emotions of a day as well as anyone. And his love for the game – and those involved in it – pours off every page of this book. But because he has interests far beyond the boundary – in politics and people, in music and history – he is as likely to quote Mott the Hoople as Herman Melville; as likely to cite the repeal of the corn laws as regulations regarding Kolpak registrations.

His work is all the richer and more satisfying for it. He knows that not everything that counts can be counted. He knows you can’t define love or loyalty or a million things in between. So he tells us how a day’s play feels. He tells us about the people and places. He tells us why it matters but knows it doesn’t matter too much.

This book is a collection of some of his finest cricket writing.

About the Author

Paul Edwards qualified as a teacher and did not write his first piece of paid journalism until 1992. Nowadays, he spends most of his time reading, writing, watching cricket and walking. The latter is his preference, although it is often a necessity. He cannot swim, drive or even ride a bicycle. He lives in Southport and still teaches freelance, mostly between October and April. He writes for a wide variety of publications and websites and has played his part in the demise of some fine regional newspapers. 

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