num_pages: 320
description: This hilarious story of one man's lifelong obsession with cricket takes readers from the early awkward days as a fat boy growing up in a Brighton sweet shop to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates still chasing the sweet spot. In this story, cricket offers a shelter from life's irksome realities and a place in which to quietly dream. That place is a peculiarly English arcadia of occasional wondrous beauty, forests of comforting statistics and the endless life-affirming rituals of defeat, humiliation and disappointment—the perfect net practice for life.
language: English
title: Fatty Batter: How Cricket Saved My Life
titlecomplete: Fatty Batter: How Cricket Saved My Life (And Then Ruined It)
genres: Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor
ratings_count: 367
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Costa Book Award
category: Biography
publisher: Ebury Press