Advantages: Open, Honest, Entertaining Disadvantages: Could have more about his cricket
=== The Plot ===
When I first bought this book, I was expecting an autobiography of Marcus Trescothick’s undoubtedly brilliant England career, with a couple of chapters about the illness which eventually prematurely ended his legendary England career and forced him to concentrate his efforts on the domestic game.
What I got instead was a brilliantly honest, revealingly in depth and at times, tear-jerking emotionally shocking account of how an illness ... ...game.
The book begins with an account of how, in Dixons at Heathrow Airport whilst waiting to board a flight to Dubai with all of his Somerset County Cricket Club team mates “Tresco” broke down in uncontrollable tears, in a hysteric fit and knew at that moment, as he realised he just couldn’t board the flight, that his England career was over.
The book then skips back to his time as a junior cricketer and how, even just a schoolboy trip to Torquay ...
martin0201 09.06.2009
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All men live a quiet life of desperation, recession of course a breeding ground for that apathy, something women never really understand, expecting them to always be their rock as they grizzle away on their shoulders for the slightest little thing. When men can't deal with the modern pressures of life, often due to women, and mortgages and kids, women all too often walk away from men, their most intrinsic selfish trait by far. We are indifferent ... ...it will ever be, but if we show weakness then the stigma is forever there, depression often the curse of the free thinker who contemplates too much, or the hunter gatherer who can no longer provide, writers some of the most likely to suffer depression. England cricketer Markus Trescothick could hide no longer from his battle with depression, again a needy woman and family life at the centre of the anxiety. He used O-Level Drama (his only one) to ...
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