However it is only in the final few chapters that I gained the sense that he feels content and I hope he does. I am a big fan of Test Cricket, and enjoy Tailenders the Podcast (although am not in their target demographic probably! If you're aiming for an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of the higher echelons of English cricket, this might not be for you. I’ve never heard of the Maccabee’s but as Felix and I both share a love of cricket, guitars and loud rock music I put his book on my to read list.

I only knew of Felix White through the Tailenders podcast which is OK if a little unstructured although I knew he was a talented musician.It’s Always Summer Somewhere is his funny, heartbreaking and endlessly engaging love letter to the game. From school-day horrors and mud flinging fun to nights at Liverpool’s punk club, Eric’s, Sergeant was fuelled by and thrived on music. It's Always Summer Somewhere is his funny, heartbreaking and endlessly engaging love letter to the game.

Felix meets them at each signposted moment to find out what was really behind those moments that gave cricket fans everywhere sporting memories that would last forever, sending the book into an exploration of grief, transgenerational displacement and how the people we’ve known and things we’ve loved culminate and take expression in our lives. It's in such a tender way that Felix tells his story of loss - so perceptively intertwined are the passions that nourish him and the lovely, loopy game that he can't look away from. This had a very similar literary style to the Broken Greek by Pete Paphides although it is none the worse for that. I was often surprised and moved by his passionate understanding of cricket as comfort, consolation and rock and roll remedy.I’ve never written a book review before, but felt compelled to do so for Felix White’s wonderful autobiographical book. I heard Felix being interviewed on the Test Match Special podcast and thought his book sounded interesting. Not that it's a bad book; on the contrary, it's interesting and quite well written, but the other two main strands in the narrative heavily outweigh that concerning his erstwhile band.

A sort of rambling memoir about his life occasionally punctuated by weird crowbarred references to things that happened in cricket at the time.A strange mix that combines the life story of a rock star with important moments in cricket from the last 30 years. Because while this is a book about cricket, it isn’t a book about cricket, it’s about loss, and grief, and learning and living. This is an extraordinary first book … funny, tragic, candid and heartfelt; it would be remarkable if he ever wrote a better one.