Black Swan Summer tells the extraordinary story of Western
Australia's first season of Sheffield Shield cricket, when an
unheralded group of unknown, unfashionable and inexperienced
players won Australian cricket's biggest prize at their first
attempt. But it's more than just a story of an upset result in a
cricket competition. It's a chronicle of the summer in which Don
Bradman scored his 100th century, India toured Australia for the
first time and the country plunged into political turmoil - which
not everyone noticed, because they were at the cricket. The book
explains the connections between men who returned from war to play
cricket, the fear of communism, Mahatma Gandhi, rationing, Keith
Miller, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Ray Lindwall's back foot
and a boxer called the Alabama Kid. Drawing on the personal
reminiscences of the last three surviving cricketers from the
1947/48 season, it brings that hot, wet summer vividly to life.
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