Alan Hardy
ASIN: B0797Y4YMS
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 143
Gabriella is a proud, beautiful aristocrat. Jim is a shy, working-class rebel. Gabriella is eighteen. Jim is sixteen. They live their lives on opposite sides of the track. They meet one day by chance out on the sports field.You’ll love this comic account of love during a cricket match, where red balls, long-handled bats and probing deliveries are ideal metaphors for the game of love. This is a game of cricket played in a way you’ve never seen before. Watch open-mouthed the love contest between arrogant, gorgeous Gabriella, and awe-struck Jim. Read of the fearsome struggle between them as they fight for the honor and glory not just of themselves and their team, but of their social class. Thrill to the ebb and flow of the battle of the sexes between our two young lovers, as hate turns to love, and to hate again, in the all-out contest between the pair, where sport seems more like war, and ...