A Clear Blue Sky: A Remarkable Memoir About Family, Loss and the Will to Overcome

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Jonny Bairstow Duncan Hamilton

A Clear Blue Sky

A Remarkable Memoir About Family, Loss and the Will to Overcome

Jonny Bairstow, Duncan Hamilton

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HarperCollins
04 June 2018

Autobiography: sport; Cricket

WINNER OF THE WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

As a young boy of eight, Jonny Bairstow was dealt a cruel blow. His father David ‘Bluey’ Bairstow, the combative and very popular wicketkeeper and captain of Yorkshire, took his own life at the age of forty-six.

David left behind Jonny, Jonny’s sister Becky and half-brother Andy, and his wife Janet, who had recently been diagnosed with cancer at the time of his death. From these incredibly tough circumstances, Jonny and his family strived to find an even keel and come to terms with the loss of their father and husband.

Jonny found his way through his dedication to sport. He was a gifted and natural athlete, with potential careers ahead of him in rugby and football, but he eventually chose cricket and came to build a career that followed in his father’s footsteps, eventually reaching the pinnacle of the sport and breaking the record for most Test runs in a year by a wicketkeeper.

Written with multiple-award-winning writer Duncan Hamilton, this is an incredible story of triumph over adversity and a memoir with far-reaching lessons about determination and the will to overcome.

By: Jonny Bairstow, Duncan Hamilton
Imprint: HarperCollins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780008232696
ISBN 10: 0008232695
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 June 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Duncan Hamilton was a journalist at the Nottingham Evening Post for over twenty years. He now works and lives in Leeds.

Reviews for A Clear Blue Sky: A Remarkable Memoir About Family, Loss and the Will to Overcome

‘Incredible… outstanding… A Clear Blue Sky is not just the ‘cricket’ book of the year. It will become a very important reference point for anyone who has suffered like they have… It will be an inspiration to thousands’ Daily Mail ‘A Clear Blue Sky is far more gripping and revealing than most of its peers… The passages about love and loss are superbly orchestrated’ Daily Telegraph ‘Profoundly moving’ Sky Sports ‘Moving’ Sunday Times Books of the Year ‘An exceptional book in every way’ Daily Mail Books of the Year

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A Clear Blue Sky

A Remarkable Memoir About Family, Loss and the Will to Overcome

Jonny Bairstow, Duncan Hamilton

$22.99

Paperback

Reviews for A Clear Blue Sky: A Remarkable Memoir About Family, Loss and the Will to Overcome

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