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Fight or Flight: My Life

By: Keith Earls
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
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Keith Earls started out in senior rugby as a teenage star and during the course of his long career has become one of the most admired and respected players of his generation.

A British & Irish Lion at the age of 21, he is now closing in on his 34th birthday and still playing at the top of his game. A native of Limerick city, Earls grew up in one of its most socially disadvantaged housing estates. His natural sporting talent brought him into the privileged bastion of elite rugby union.

His frank and fearless autobiography tells the story of his long struggle to reconcile the world whence he came with the world opened up by his brilliance with an oval ball. Earls has maintained a low profile throughout his career. For the first time he will talk in depth and at length about the inner turmoil that went unseen by team-mates, friends and fans. It is a confessional, intimate and courageous story of the pain that was a constant companion to the glory.

©2021 Keith Earls (P)2021 W. F. Howes Ltd Rugby Sports Inspiring Thought-Provoking

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"A top class player, a brilliant team mate, Keith has an incredible story to tell." (Johnny Sexton)
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great insight into the life of a successful rugby player who suffers from mental ill-health. Well worth reading even if you are not a rugby fan

Insightful

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I really liked this book. Fair play to Keith Earls for his visceral honesty. Most sports biographies are pretty poor; they have lots of words that say very little, this one was not like that, very honest and open. I was very impressed with Keith Earls.

I have to add a note on the narrator however. It was very poor, verging on terrible. He mispronounced “Edel” every time, he mispronounced other names in different ways, at different times, throughout the book! I feel aggrieved that I payed money for such poor narration, it’s like he was reading it for the first time and with no research done, does nobody in Audible listen to these before they release them?

Good, honest book…very poor narration.

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One of the best I've listened to. Keith is inspiring so many people on and off the pitch

Brilliant 👏

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Great book but the narrator is painful, mispronouncing names and places and putting on some weird Disney Irish accent. Needs to be re-recorded.

Awful narrator

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Over the past 50 years I have read many sports books mostly about rugby. This book has to be up there with the best, if nothing fact the best.
Keith Earls has written a fascinating account of his personal/family/community/ professional
Life, in an open narrative, where he confronts, and manages his mental health issues. I congratulate him on the fearless way he bares his soul. His bravery on the pitch is well known, and is matched by the honesty and courage displayed in his writing.
Rarely do you see a famous sports personality lay it all so bare.
This is a super book
The reading is disappointing, in that he has several mispronunciations, many of them repeated. This is annoying but I still give it a 5 star rating, as it is a book to be read or listened to by everybody.
I wish that more sport books were as candid andcenthralling

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