Included in the Financial Times best books of 2020 selection 'For
those who fear the worst for the sport they love, this is like
cool, clear water for a man dying of thirst. It's barnstorming,
coruscating stuff, and as fine a book about the game as you'll read
for years' Mail on Sunday 'Charming . . . a threnody for a vanished
and possibly mythical England' Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times
'Lyrical . . . [Henderson's] pen is filled with the romantic spirit
of the great Neville Cardus . . . This book is an extended love
letter, a beautifully written one, to a world that he is desperate
to keep alive for others to discover and share. Not just his love
of cricket, either, but of poetry and classical music and fine
cinema' The Times (best summer books) 'To those who love both
cricket and the context in which it is played, the book is rather
wonderful, and moving' Daily Telegraph 'Philip Larkin's line 'that
will be England gone' is the premise of this fascinating book which
is about music, literature, poetry and architecture as well as
cricket. Henderson is that rare bird, a reporter with a fine grasp
of time and place, but also a stylist of enviable quality and
perception' Michael Parkinson Neville Cardus once said there could
be no summer in England without cricket. The 2019 season was
supposed to be the greatest summer of cricket ever seen in England.
There was a World Cup, followed by five Test matches against
Australia in the latest engagement of sport's oldest rivalry. It
was also the last season of county cricket before the introduction
in 2020 of a new tournament, The Hundred, designed to attract an
audience of younger people who have no interest in the summer game.
In That Will Be England Gone, Michael Henderson revisits much-loved
places to see how the game he grew up with has changed since the
day in 1965 that he saw the great fast bowler Fred Trueman in his
pomp. He watches schoolboys at Repton, club cricketers at
Ramsbottom, and professionals on the festival grounds of
Chesterfield, Cheltenham and Scarborough. The rolling English road
takes him to Leicester for T20, to Lord's for the most ceremonial
Test match, and to Taunton to watch an old cricketer leave the
crease for the last time. He is enchanted at Trent Bridge,
surprised at the Oval, and troubled at Old Trafford. 'Cricket,'
Henderson says, 'has always been part of my other life.' There are
memories of friendships with Ken Dodd, Harold Pinter and Simon
Rattle, and the book is coloured throughout by a love of landscape,
poetry, paintings and music. As well as reflections on his
childhood hero, Farokh Engineer, and other great players, there are
digressions on subjects as various as Lancashire comedians,
Viennese melancholy and the films of Michael Powell. Lyrical and
elegiac, That Will Be England Gone is a deeply personal tribute to
cricket, summer and England.
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