Willowman
by Inga Simpson
Published by Hachette Australia
ISBN 9780733634550
$32.99
Inga Simpson has outed herself as a cricket tragic. With this new novel, she will endear herself to the many others of her kind who walk among us, particularly those drawn to the game’s more traditional and ‘pure’ manifestations or who look wistfully back to the days when education ranked cricket training and its attendant moral discipline more highly than (other) intellectual pursuits. Naturally, and as the title suggests, this acclaimed doctor of nature writing has also given considerable attention to the white willow trees so vital to cricket’s nuances and
