This engaging but lightweight comic novel starts with speculators buying a struggling local football club (intending to develop the ground for housing, naturally). It continues with a rogue batch of jam-less doughnuts setting off a chain-reaction of coincidence and mishap that ends not only with the survival of the club, but with a bright, rosy future. Recommended for holidays and long journeys, although I thought pools wins in novels were a thing of the past...
(Clive Yelf - bwl 23 April 2004 ) |