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It's Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket - A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK & SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLE Paperback – 2 Jun. 2022

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

"Felix White's beautifully, elegantly and passionately written book reminds me why I love cricket so much. And reading, come to that." - Stephen Fry

"The love of cricket is both communal and individual. Felix has a wonderful knack of evoking both in a book full of life, joy and resilience." - Gideon Haigh

"Life beyond sport, love after loss, a soulful portrait of how play stops the rain." - Cariad Lloyd

"This is an extraordinary first book ... funny, tragic, candid and heartfelt; it would be remarkable if he ever wrote a better one." - Wisden Almanack 2022

Felix White, for reasons often beyond him, has always been deeply in love with cricket. His passion for the game is at the fore on the BBC 's number one cricket podcast and 5Live show, Tailenders, which he co-presents with Greg James and Jimmy Anderson. It's Always Summer Somewhere is his funny, heartbreaking and endlessly engaging love letter to the game.

Felix takes us through his life growing up in South West London and describes how his story is forever punctuated and given meaning by cricket. Through his own exploits as a slow left arm spinner of 'lovely loopy stuff', to the tragic illness of his mother, life with The Maccabees and his cricket redemption, Felix touches on both the comedic and the tragic in equal measure. Throughout, there's the ever-present roller coaster of following the England cricket team. The exploits of Tufnell (another bowler of 'lovely loopy stuff'), Atherton, Hussain et al, are given extra import through the eyes of a cricket-obsessed youth. 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 Always Summer Somewhere is an incredibly honest detail of a life lived with cricket. It offers a sense of genuine empathy and understanding not just with cricket fans, but sports and music fans across the world, in articulating our reasons for pouring so much meaning into something that we simply cannot control. Culminating in the heart-stopping World Cup Final in 2019, the book finally answers that question fans have so often asked... what is it about this game?

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2 Jun. 2022
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12.6 x 3.2 x 19.8 cm
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1788403657
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978-1788403658
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A cricketing history of the last 20 years.

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Felix White is a musician, broadcaster and co-founder of independent record label, Yala! He has also, for as long as his conscious memory extends, been in love with the game of cricket. Neither of his parents - from Lebanon and the Isle of Wight - were into the game, so it is a slight mystery to everyone that he took to it as much as he did. He co-presents BBC podcast Tailenders with Greg James and England's most successful ever fast bowler Jimmy Anderson, which has proved a 'safe space' in which to channel his enthusiasm for it regularly. The Maccabees, the band for whom he is renowned, released four studio albums and split at their commercial peak after 14 years together, off the back of a UK number one album and major festival headline shows. He lives in South London where he continues to work on numerous musical projects, including film scores, and has still not overcome his rational fear of a cricket ball.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cassell (2 Jun. 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1788403657
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1788403658
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.6 x 3.2 x 19.8 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 6,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Felix White is a musician, author and broadcaster.

His debut book, ‘It’s Always Summer Somewhere’, a memoir on a life lived through the love of cricket and music while processing young grief, is a Sunday Times Bestseller and has received widespread praise and plaudits from revered names across the arts and sports worlds, including Stephen Fry, Pete Paphides and Toby Jones.

His band, The Maccabees, released four studio albums before disbanding at their commercial peak after a number one album, major festival headline shows and an Ivor Novello award. He has since worked as a composer on film scores and co-founded independent record label ‘Yala!’. as well as launching BBC cricket podcast Tailenders with Greg James and Jimmy Anderson. The show recorded 9 million listens/downloads in 2020 and won Best Live Show at the British Podcast Awards.

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Joe S

A wonderful, life affirming book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2021

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Having followed the Maccabees when they were active, and keeping in touch with Felix's writing on Cricket, I had been looking forward to this book. It doesn't dissapoint. Felix encapsulates what cricket means to so many, and despite it being a sport which can be baffling to a neutral and engrossing to those who know, his words show a love for the game. The moments in his life, bookended with interviews from players, are written about with care, and the love for his family, including his mother, shines throughout. A wonderful book.

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Mr T R Screen

Heartbreaking and Heartwarming in equal measure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2021

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A beautifully written memoir that transcends cricket and music and is a deeply moving study on love and grief. I couldn’t put it down. As someone that grew up in the 90’s with the England cricket team and Oasis, i recognised a lot Felix’s touch points. If the section detailing Postman Pat’s sledging of the Pencaster cricket team doesn’t have you smiling from ear to ear then you are dead inside!

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Becky C

Absolutely brilliant book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2021

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This is a truly wonderful book. The openness and honesty of it is truly extraordinary. The early parts in particular are so painfully relatable, the confusion and mess of our teenage years as we try to make sense of the world and our place in it. A really beautiful read

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James W

A beautifully written account of life, growing up, loss, music and cricket.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2021

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What a book. A touching account of a life lived and a life prematurely lost, wrapped up with music and cricket. I am currently about halfway through the book as I write, however it is very hard to put it down - extremely enjoyable reading. Felix pours his heart out in this incredibly moving and well-written memoir.

You don't need to like or know about cricket or music to enjoy this book. However, as someone around the same age - I was born a few months after Felix, who grew up attempting to bowl lovely loopy stuff, watching (and falling in love with) the England cricket test team toiling away in the 90s, who also supports the same county side (Surrey), and also developed similar musical tastes from Oasis, through to the Strokes, Interpol etc, growing up and maturing, *and* then was at university during the rise of the Maccabees (still a live gig highlight) and that musical era, I felt often very closely twinned with the very relatable accounts of these shared experiences.

I can't imagine what it is like to lose a parent prematurely and at a relatively young age, however these raw and emotional sections are insightful, honest and beautifully written. They really share the love and bonds of relationships and family.

Thank you Felix. Go well.

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C. A. Hind

A story of joy, loss and maybe redemption

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 January 2022

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This had a very similar literary style to the Broken Greek by Pete Paphides although it is none the worse for that.
The underlying thread for me is Felix’ constant desire to be popular, avoid confrontation , (at the expense of his personal happiness) and his struggle with processing his grief from his mothers early death
So many of us want to be a rockstar, date a rockstar and have famous friends on their phone and Felix has had all that. However it is only in the final few chapters that I gained the sense that he feels content and I hope he does.
I laughed and cried and like Felix cricket has been a part of my life (for over fifty years) Cricket is so often a metaphor for life and can be a tremendous force for good (check out cricketwithoutboundarie.com ).
This is a lovely read

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Adam Palmer

Cricket and life lessons intertwined so articulately.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2022

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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.

I had no idea he could write like this. He is so incredibly eloquent in articulating his mother's illness, her death and how he dealt with it and how it still shapes who he is
It helps of you are a cricket fan of course but not essential. For example, the lessons about life you can take from Alan Wells and the other snippet interviews with Tuffers, Trott etc are intertwined nicely into the book.

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Erudite and affecting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2021

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I am a big fan of Test Cricket, and enjoy Tailenders the Podcast (although am not in their target demographic probably!) so this was an appealing book. What I was not prepared for was the beautiful writing in this very personal memoir in which Felix White explains the main influences in his life - personal, musical, and of course cricket. A must for any cricket lover - and you don’t have to have heard of the Maccabees or Tailenders. It is a gorgeous and moving piece of writing - funny, sad and thought provoking. Certainly his mother would have been very proud of her son.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2021

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Just buy it. If you like Indie. If like cricket. Doesn't matter if you don't like either you will love this.

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