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Half of the Human Race

By: Anthony Quinn
Narrated by: Roger May
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In the sweltering summer of 1911, suffragette Connie Callaway is introduced to Will Maitland, cricketer and rising star of his county. Despite parting on uncertain terms, they are destined to meet again, their lives inextricably entangled. Combining national drama and private tragedy, this is a story of love, sacrifice, suffrage and county cricket, projected against a vivid backdrop of England in an extraordinary age of turmoil and violence.

©2011 Anthony Quinn (P)2011 W F Howes Ltd 20th Century Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Tear-jerking Sports

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An excellent yarn mixing historical events with the fiction of the romance of the two main characters but spoiled for me by a lack of appreciation of the relationship between the amateur and professional cricketer in pre-WW1 England. William Maitalnd, the hero, is a public school educated man who decides to make cricket his "profession", and signs professional terms with a fictional county based on the old county ground at Hastings (The Priory). He is offered the captaincy of his county but declines on a matter of loyalty to a team mate who his committee want to sack. In reality, this would never have occurred at this time. It would be another 20 years before a professional captained a first class county (Ewart Astill) and it is unlikely Maitland would have been permitted to play as a professional in the first place. Even if he could not afford to play as an amateur, some means of defraying his expenses would have been found to avoid him becoming a traitor to his class - as was the case with many during the Victorian and Edwardian era - WG Grace to name but one.

The rest of the cricket related matters in the book are done well which makes it all the more surprising that the author should have missed this small, but significant point

This little irritation (and perhaps a frustration with Maitland's stuffed shirt reluctance to follow his heart) it is excellent.

Nearly, but not quite 5 star

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I really enjoyed this book. it gave a believable narrative around the movement for women's rights. Essentially a warm story but not predictable. I would definitely recommend it.

A great listen

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Beautiful love story and illustration of how women were treated by society at the beginning of the last century

So many themes woven together skillfully

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