Reviews
Praise for Between Overs:
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‘Her career in itself is a great story. Ploughing on with gritted teeth - ignored, patronised and worse - she gets the job she wants, makes great friends and has many adventures along the way, always championing her beloved West Indies. But this book is more than a career progress, it is part autobiography, part love letter - to Viv Richards and her father - part cricket primer and part a working through of grief for the loss of both her parents. It’s a social history of the time too, and an illustration of how difficult it was for a woman to pad up, walk through the invisible wicker gate and take a place at the crease in a man’s world.
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'#MeToo rears its ugly head. Of course it does, it is the unspoken history of pretty much every woman working in a male-dominated industry - and a lot more besides. There are a litany of incidents, from the Test cricketer who tells her he is going to “f***” her later and then, when she refuses, drives her away at terrifying speed; the author who pins her down and gropes her in yet another car; the journalist who tries to goose her at a function. She doesn’t want sympathy, just to tell things how they were.
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‘Between Overs is the story of a life well lived, an autobiography guided by cricket . . . The story will have resonance for each of us who measures life, its boundaries and wickets, by what is happening on the pitch’
Tanya Aldred | The Cricketer
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'The West Indian political intellectual, CLR James, once described his seminal work Beyond the Boundary as 'neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography'. It was an apposite description, equally relevant to Michele Savidge's wonderful book.
I wasn't sure what to expect, but worked my way through the one, relishing every page turn, in just a couple of days. Far more easily and quickly than it would have been to write.
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By the end of it I felt I had read one of the better cricket books/autobiographies in a long time.’
Steve Dolman | Derbyshire Cricket blog
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'I have to say that I hope very much that Between Overs is not the last book we see from Michéle Savidge’
Martin Chandler | CricketWeb
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‘This is a book that should be read by anyone with even the slightest interest in cricket, for any number of reasons’
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Martin Chandler | @fredfertang on twitter
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‘Michéle Savidge was a trailblazer’
‘Her description of the final day of the Ashes Test at Headingley in 2019 - Ben Stokes’s day - is as good as any I have read’
‘Savidge writes exceptionally well about every aspect of Viv Richards’s character’
Bill Ricquier | ‘From the Pavilion End’ cricket blog
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‘An outstanding, essential read. Far more than just a cricket book'
Steve Dolman | @peakfanblog on twitter
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