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'If I've learned one thing,' the late, great Father Fehily used to say, 'it's that life, families and rugby balls don't always behave the way you want them to!'

Looking at my life, I'd have to say, the dude wasn't wrong.

My old man had been caught rigging a General Election. My old dear was about to become a seventy-year-old mother of six. And Honor was walking around in a yellow rain mac, telling everyone that the end of the world was coming.

It was enough to drive a man to the brink.

The only simple thing in my life was my new job as the Head Coach of Presentation College Bray - which is saying something given that I had to try to turn a collection of jokers, chokers and forty-a-day smokers into a team capable of winning the school's first Leinster Schools Senior Cup in nearly ninety years.

And while Father Fehily would have been spinning in his grave, I soon found myself falling in love - with the town I loathed so well.

(C) Ross O'Caroll-Kelly 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy Funny Rugby

Critic reviews

Ross is a national institution ... wicked humour and sharp observation
Riotously funny ... Surrender to laugh out loud humour yet again
One of the funniest writers in the land
Extraordinarily accurate and outstandingly funny
All stars
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Another good addition to the series. Always good for a few sharp references to Irish culture with the addition of a wicklow subplot here being very effective

Another entertaining Ross book

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The performance by Rory Nolan was flawless. I didn't want the book to end and I can't wait for the next one.

Absolutely hilarious

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amazing, brilliant and so funny. absolutely loved it and buying all the others in the series. please make more audio books of the series

buy this

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Funniest books ever written and the reader does an amazing job with the accents.

Brilliant, hilarious, love it

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Hilarious as are all the RO'CK books....but an inexcusable error, concerning what happens after a conversion, really spoilt it for me. It betrays the fact that the author is a casual rugby fan, and far from an expert. Which is fine, but I'm sorry but in that case at least one true rugby fan should have sanity checked it. (I realise for most people this is extremely pedantic, but given the focus on rugby in the books, it's important to remain credible.)

Let down by an awful rugby error

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