A Season in Sinji

by J. L. Carr

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This novel develops against the background of a cricket match, in West Africa during the Second World War.

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Not what I normally read but since it was related to Africa I relented and was glad that I did. An easy read with a moral and the punchline on the very last page, which in this edition at least meant turning over to half a page so no peeping. His entry in Wikipedia is very interesting. (

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Tom Flanders

Nigel Turton

Peter Wakerly

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'...For he had that the game itself, if it is found in its natural bearings, is only the agreeable wicket-gate to a landscape of human joys and sorrows, and is greatest where it fades away most imperceptibly into their wider horizons.'
Edmund Blunden Cricket Country

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For George and many another known and unknown to me, who rolled, made teas, watched and wrote the minutes

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I particularly remember one evening at Blackfen.

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Engel, Matthew

Smith, Martin Seymour