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Title: Harold Larwood
Author: Duncan Hamilton
Narrator: Alex Jennings
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-16-10
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Ltd
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities
Publisher's Summary:
Harold Larwood is an England cricketing legend. During the MCCs notorious 19323 Ashes tour of Australia, his Bodyline bowling left Australias batsmen bruised and battered, halved the batting average of the great Don Bradman and gave England a 41 series victory.
But the diplomatic row that followed brought Anglo-Australian relations to the brink of collapse. Larwood was used as a scapegoat by the MCC, which demanded he apologise for bowling Bodyline. Arguing that he had simply obeyed the instructions of his captain, Douglas Jardine, Larwood refused. He never played for England again.
The Bodyline saga has been told before, but Larwoods story has not. Using materials provided by the fast bowlers family, Duncan Hamilton has created an intimate and compelling portrait of Larwoods life: from his mining village upbringing, through the trauma of 19323 and its bitter aftermath, to his emigration to Australia, where he and his family found happiness.
A moving recreation of the triumph, betrayal and redemption of a working-class hero, Harold Larwood will enthral not only cricket fans, but all those who relish biographical writing of the highest quality.
