It’s Always Summer Somewhere

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Felix White is cricket’s flag waver. His passion for the game is at the fore on the BBC’s number one cricket podcast and 5Live show, ‘Tailenders,’ which he co-presents with Greg James and Jimmy Anderson. ‘It’s Always Summer Somewhere’ is Felix’s funny, heart-breaking and endless engaging love letter to the game of cricket. Felix looks back at the last 20 years of the sport and unpacks the most poignant moments; both cultural touchstones for the game and unflinching personal events. He relives each, telling us how and what it taught him about life. In a fact-finding field trip in the name of catharsis, White hunts down the main players in said memory and hears about their own personal experience and recollections.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

“Felix White’s beautifully, elegantly and passionately written book reminds me why I love cricket so much. And reading, come to that.” – Stephen Fry

“The love of cricket is both communal and individual. Felix has a wonderful knack of evoking both in a book full of life, joy and resilience.” – Gideon Haigh

“Life beyond sport, love after loss, a soulful portrait of how play stops the rain.” – Cariad Lloyd

“This is an extraordinary first book … funny, tragic, candid and heartfelt; it would be remarkable if he ever wrote a better one.” – Wisden Almanack 2022

Felix White, for reasons often beyond him, has always been deeply in love with cricket. His passion for the game is at the fore on the BBC ‘s number one cricket podcast and 5Live show, Tailenders, which he co-presents with Greg James and Jimmy Anderson. It’s Always Summer Somewhere is his funny, heartbreaking and endlessly engaging love letter to the game.

Felix takes us through his life growing up in South West London and describes how his story is forever punctuated and given meaning by cricket. Through his own exploits as a slow left arm spinner of ‘lovely loopy stuff’, to the tragic illness of his mother, life with The Maccabees and his cricket redemption, Felix touches on both the comedic and the tragic in equal measure. Throughout, there’s the ever-present roller coaster of following the England cricket team. The exploits of Tufnell (another bowler of ‘lovely loopy stuff’), Atherton, Hussain et al, are given extra import through the eyes of a cricket-obsessed youth. Felix meets them at each signposted moment to find out what was really behind those moments that gave cricket fans everywhere sporting memories that would last forever, sending the book into an exploration of grief, transgenerational displacement and how the people we’ve known and things we’ve loved culminate and take expression in our lives.

It’s Always Summer Somewhere is an incredibly honest detail of a life lived with cricket. It offers a sense of genuine empathy and understanding not just with cricket fans, but sports and music fans across the world, in articulating our reasons for pouring so much meaning into something that we simply cannot control. Culminating in the heart-stopping World Cup Final in 2019, the book finally answers that question fans have so often asked… what is it about this game?

Additional information

Weight 347 g
Dimensions 198 × 126 × 32 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

400

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

796.358092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K