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Pete Davies, author of All Played Out, spends a season with the
Doncaster Belles and finds a unique group of people with an
abundance of talent and a vividly earthy humour. They play hard in
the pit villages and nightclubs of South Yorkshire, they play hard on
tatty pitches in run-down suburbs and industrial estates - but they
play for love too, and to a standard that could convert the most
blinkered chauvinist.
7 Lost My Heart to the Belles is that rare thing in modern
publishing: a true labour of love' GQ
4 Davies paints a picture of a world in which sport is every bit as
important to young women as it is to young men, as a way of
breaking out of the cycle of poverty and spirit-numbing boredom of
British working-class life' Sunday Times
4 Witty, warm, wise and inspiring This is that rarest of sports
books a cracking good read that will appeal to the reader without
the slightest interest in sport' Yorkshire Post
fcNot for the faint-hearted, the Belles can...
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Pete Davies, author of All Played Out, spends a season with the
Doncaster Belles and finds a unique group of people with an
abundance of talent and a vividly earthy humour. They play hard in
the pit villages and nightclubs of South Yorkshire, they play hard on
tatty pitches in run-down suburbs and industrial estates - but they
play for love too, and to a standard that could convert the most
blinkered chauvinist.
7 Lost My Heart to the Belles is that rare thing in modern
publishing: a true labour of love' GQ
4 Davies paints a picture of a world in which sport is every bit as
important to young women as it is to young men, as a way of
breaking out of the cycle of poverty and spirit-numbing boredom of
British working-class life' Sunday Times
4 Witty, warm, wise and inspiring This is that rarest of sports
books a cracking good read that will appeal to the reader without
the slightest interest in sport' Yorkshire Post
fcNot for the faint-hearted, the Belles can out-bloke the fellas
risking lifelong disablement all in the pursuit of the beautiful game'
For Him
'A fascinating story' South Yorkshire Times
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