Turning Over the Pebbles: A Life in Cricket and in the Mind
By
Constable £22
(John) Michael Brearley is, in hard fact, an oldie (present age 81).
But, for this not quite so ancient reviewer, he will be forever young: stuck in a time warp, 1981, at what he too considers the most exciting period of cricket in his life.
Then he was not, of course, merely a journeyman professional but captain of the England