Eleven-year-old David Wiseman is mad about cricket - unfortunately, he's not terribly good at it; indeed his stunning ineptitude with bat and ball has made him the laughing-stock of his school. When a West Indian family move next door and build a cricket net in their back garden, he's in seventh heaven - he can practise, hone his non-existent skills - but in the sheltered protectorate of 1960s England, their arrival serves to inflame local feeling and before long, David finds himself caught up in a spiteful tangle of racial tensions, a war of gossip and petty vandalism.
- ISBN10 0340884053
- ISBN13 9780340884058
- Publish Date 15 April 2004
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 5 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Children's Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 240
- Language English