Very original. I loved it.Mick JaggerThis is a little marvel. Itsfunny clever illuminating deeply kindhearted and doesnt outstay itswelcome. . . . Every word ha... » 

Very original. I loved it.Mick JaggerThis is a little marvel. Itsfunny clever illuminating deeply kindhearted and doesnt outstay itswelcome. . . . Every word has been chosen with care.GuardianWrittenwith a beguiling simplicity and . . . small wisdoms. . . . Its clarity andmusing tone perfectly suit a rainy afternoon.The Daily TelegraphAwonderful clear crisp precise book.BBC Radio 4Stuck in a rote marriageto a perfectly good man the narrator finds passion and belonging in the bed ofan insurance agent referred to simply as the lossadjuster. She has her ownlosses to deal with her marriage has gone stale and shes reeling from thesudden and heartbreaking independence of a teenage stepson.Set against thebackdrop of a fiveday cricket match she cant begin to understand thenarrator examines the choices shes made confronting her general bafflementabout life and how to live it. This clever little book tackles big questionsabout love family passion and whether one should always play by therules.Jennie Walker is a pseudonym for Faber Faber poet Charles Boyle. Hehas won the Cholmondeley Award and has been shortlisted for the Forward PoetryPrize the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize. The Rules of Playpublished in the United Kingdom as 24 for 3 won the McKitterick Prize. In2007 he founded his own press CB Editions. «