"Truly original, clever, funny, poignant and passionate." -- Clare Balding "Wittily and charmingly combines adolescent excess with grown-up irony and perspective. Sport hasn't seen anything quite like this." -- Simon Barnes "Emma's memoir somehow manages to be the story of my own youth. It is a touching and funny account of a cricketing era that though recent also feels very long gone." -- Miles Jupp "A winner - funny, warm, perceptive, and wonderfully evocative. Highly recommended." -- Michael Simkins "Deftly comic, wonderfully true, for anyone who has ever thought that England, chasing 600 in the fourth innings, just might do it.
" -- Gideon Haigh "A beautifully constructed and painfully honest memoir of blind loyalty to an unworthy sporting team." -- Lynne Truss "Wonderful, funny, elegantly turned and strikingly perceptive. Above all it has a warmth you don't often find in cricket writing." -- Marcus Berkmann "I have read a fair few cricket books but none like this. Consistently witty and full of wonder." -- Arthur Smith "A fresh and lively read" -- The Observer "A gloriously funny yet poignant memoir" -- The Guardian "It is in equal measure funny, insightful, perceptive, illuminating and best of all a jolly good cricket read" -- www.blackpoolgazette.co.
uk "A witty and thoughtful recollection of growing up as a sports-mad girl in the Nineties" -- School Sport "A funny and touching memoir" -- School Sport " Following On is the wonderful story of John's rather unhealthy teenage obsession with England's finest set of losers . It is a very funny depiction of why cricket touches you, however bad the team is that you follow" -- The Cricket Paper "A real treat of a book, that will gladden the hearts of any cricket lover over 25, and broaden the horizons of anyone under." -- All Out Cricket "John met and interviewed 11 players of the Nineties for her book . She recounts their stories with wit, warmth and perceptiveness'" -- New Statesman "A witty, wry memoir . the comparisons to Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch are justified" -- Independent i.