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Voted Rugby Book of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards.
Wrecking Ball is a captivating and humorous memoir by Billy
Vunipola, one of the stars of England's recent rugby renaissance,
and will be enjoyed by those who have read the recent
autobiographies by Jonny Wilkinson, Brian O'Driscoll, Dan Carter
and Paul O'Connell. Standing at 6 feet 2 inches and weighing almost
20 stone, Billy is a rampaging and unmissable presence on the rugby
pitch, for both club and country. Wrecking Ball is his captivating
story so far, chronicling his remarkable personal odyssey of 10,000
miles, from the tiny Tongan village of Longo Longo to the imposing
vastness of Twickenham. Join Billy on his journey from the
year-round sunshine of Tonga to the bitter cold of a British
winter, from his favourite Pontypool kebab shop to finding himself
eating broccoli for breakfast, and from carefree childhood games in
the middle of the Pacific to the serious business of playing
professional rugby in Europe. Wrecking Ball is a wonderfully
eccentric and witty book, written with bags of charm. It captures
Billy's colourful family and upbringing, and creates a rounded and
fascinating portrait of a young man finding his feet as a modern
English rugby player.
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