By Graham Thorpe
Graham Thorpe's achievements at the pitch have frequently contrasted wildly along with his own difficulties clear of cricket, the place drink and melancholy have frequently mixed to ship him spiralling off the rails.
With painful candour and sometimes unforeseen humour, Thorpe dissects his occupation in cricket and the internal recesses of his deepest life--the influence of his sour divorce, the suicidal melancholy that stricken him in his darkest hours, the explanations why he had to 'save himself' by way of retreating from prior England excursions, and his clean outlook in existence with a brand new companion after confronting his personal failings and earlier issues.
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