Many readers will remember the halcyon days of SA tennis in the early 1960s, and many lovers of fine writing will remember with joy reading Gordon Forbes’s book, A Handful of Summers.
I was intrigued recently while watching a television broadcast of the cricket series in England to hear commentator Michael Atherton rate A Handful of Summers as the sports book that best captures the spirit of those years. ..
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