For All Those Left Behind - Softcover

Andrews, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840188006 ISBN 13: 9781840188004

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

FOR ALL THOSE LEFT BEHIND is a book about fishing. It is also a book about grief, loss - and, ultimately, identity. It's about the compulsion to escape the hectic pace of modern life and the search for peace on the margins. When his father died in 1992, John Andrews thought there was nothing left unsaid between them, but as the years passed he came to realise that perhaps something had been left undone, unfinished. He began a subconscious search for these abandoned threads by starting to fish again, a pastime he had pursued with his father until the age of 15. What began as a good excuse to get away from the London rat race gradually developed into a personal journey that was to take him back to the very heart of the relationship between himself and his father. In 1999, Andrews was made redundant from Creation Records, home of Primal Scream, Oasis, Teenage Fanclub and others. Told he could walk into any job in the music industry, he decided instead to start writing. In haunting prose, Andrews describes his search to come to terms with his loss, taking the reader on his personal odyssey from Skye to Ireland and from Cuba to the green fields of Albion. FOR ALL THOSE LEFT BEHIND is a deeply moving memoir and a paean to the redemptive powers of the transquillity and joys of fishing.

About this title

Review:

"as an examination of why we go fishing this book stands up as well as any other" -- the angler's mail november 2002

'this wonderful new book' -- The 'BB' Society Newsletter

A refreshingly different angling book. Its international
flavour encapsulates all that is wonderful about fishing.
An excellent and intriguing read. -- The Sunday Express December 1st 2002 - John Wilson

This beautifully written book celebrates the bond of father
and son with an aching poignancy -- The Field March 2003

This beautifully written book celebrates the bond of father
and son with an aching poignancy
-- The Field March 2003

andrews writes fluently, with colour, vision and an eye for
detail. he writes from the heart. -- classic angling september 2002

i can recommend this well presented book, confident that it
will provide a good for many anglers this christmas and
beyond -- norfolk anglers conservation association journal dec 2002 - john nunn

read this! -- the independent on sunday september 22nd 2002

shortlisted -- THE WH SMITH AND NATIONAL SPORTING CLUB AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER 2003

From the Author:

"For All Those Left Behind" has been shortlisted for the
wh smith and national sporting club of britain awards 2003 in the best new writer category. It was also longlisted for
the william hill sports book of the year 2002. please can
you flash this information up on the site. thanks

About this edition

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1840188006
• ISBN 13: 9781840188004
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 208