Cricket Term, chapters 10-12

[coughingbear]

The final section of the book - the Play, the Match, and the End. Just about in time, but my apologies that it's so late; long day at work and trouble with laptop.

Comments

[slemslempike]

I always assume Val on demos is meant to be sarcastic - they're cheering her up by imagining an unlikely future. Although perhaps her smug's service stripe was for a genuine cause that she's likely to carry on.

Belatedly, and apologies if this was previously discussed, my internet is too poor to go back and check, why can't Nicola have Lower IVa in the cup AND be on the Prospects list? Surely if she gets them further on she's even more worthy of extra coaching herself?

Re: Val

[nnozomi]

Nicola's mixture of empathy and lack thereof in this book especially is amazing, I think, and probably fairly accurate for fourteen--the sympathy and then uninterest with regard to Val that you point out; "Why should she mind saying if she's dead?" about Janice's mother, which always makes me blink; sensitively imagining Meg Hopkins' perspective, and so on.