Fan
Subtitle: a novel
By: Danny Rhodes
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781909807808
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder; Sports stories; Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, Sheffield, England, 1989; Stadiums; Soccer fields; Accidents; Fiction
Description: In 1989, eighteen-year-old John Finch spends his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest up and down the country and the rest of the week trudging the streets of his hometown as a postal worker. His blossoming relationship with girlfriend Jen is his only other respite. In 2004 he spends his days teaching in a southern secondary school while delaying the inevitable onslaught of parenthood. Leading inexorably towards the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough, and the worst sporting disaster in British history, this book glides between 1989 and 2004, when the true impact of this tragic day becomes evid.