Title: Fan
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.
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder, Sports stories, Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, Sheffield, England, 1989, Stadiums, Soccer fields, Accidents, Fiction, Stadiums Accidents z, Fiction, historical, general, England, fiction
Places: Sheffield, England