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Coming Back To Me: The Autobiography of Marcus Trescothick Book
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feathers mcgraw01 January 2009
Not the usual sporting autobiography.Trescothick's tale is one of outstanding success against a back drop of burn out, stress and the curse of depression that appears to have been part of his life from a very early age - eventually causing his inability to complete or even contemplate overseas tours; hence his premature retirement from international cricket.
Obviously the book highlights the key moments in his cricketing life from the constant demanding of his mother to bowl at him in the back garden from the tender age of 2 and his realisation that a talented but portly teenager was never going to make an international cricketer. The real cricketing aficionado will love and re-live the Jerusalem chapter where the glorious story of the 2005 Ashes victory is re-told from the perspective of one of its main protagonists. But that is to miss the point of the book...If facing the world's fastest bowlers is not enough to prove one's courage, Trescothick's now public battle with mental illness is even more heroic.
In the end he had achieved the vast majority of his ambitions in the international game and seems to have run out of steam; the birth of his own chidren providing a further catalyst for his heart breaking decision to give up playing for his beloved England.
Read this and weep - it had my lip quivering from the first sentence of the first paragraph of the acknowledgements.
- 0007285809
- 9780007285808
- Marcus Trescothick
- 1 September 2008
- HarperSport
- Hardcover (Book)
- 384
- First Edition
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