Jumbo to Jockey: How one man turned a mid-life crisis into a childhood dream at the 4pm at Towcester. - Softcover

Prince, Dominic

3.8

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9780007288670: Jumbo to Jockey: How one man turned a mid-life crisis into a childhood dream at the 4pm at Towcester.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007288670 ISBN 13: 9780007288670

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2011

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One midlife crisis, a horse and the diet of a lifetime

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Review:

‘What a thoroughly admirable achievement. Prince writes well about food but also about the enjoyment he finds on the back of a horse, cantering up the gallops in the early mornings.
The Racing Post

‘With a natural storyteller's lightness of touch and gently self-deprecating humour, Jumbo to Jockey displays considerable spirit and draws the reader deep into the world of racing. Sheer joy leaping from the page.’
The Economist

‘There is a quiet artistry here you don't often see in journalistic memoirs. The build up to the actual race is genuinely gripping. It all makes for a fascinating, gripping read, as the fat man reconnects with the thin man he had been unconsciously been harbouring for all those years.’
The Daily Mail

‘As an account of a midlife crisis pursued to a triumphant conclusion, this is a delightful and unexpectedly touching memoir.’
Jane Shilling, Daily Telegraph

‘Prince's pages turn with delightfully dramatic ease.’
Daily Express

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How one man turned a mid-life crisis into a childhood dream at the 4pm at Towcester.

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