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The Test

My Autobiography

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The Test

By: Brian O'Driscoll
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
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About this listen

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Test, the stunning autobiography from rugby legend Brian O'Driscoll, read by Aidan Kelly.

Between 1999, when he made his international debut, and his retirement in 2014, there was no greater player in world rugby than Brian O'Driscoll.

In 2010 Rugby World magazine named him its world player of the decade - and since then the legend has only grown. Along the way he was tested - by personal loss, off-the-field pressures, and career-threatening injuries.

The Test is a book about how he took on those challenges - how a world-class talent developed a world-class work ethic and temperament. As he lost his youthful pace, O'Driscoll's reinvented himself as a player, revealing the remarkable character and drive behind the glittering gifts. In the latter years of his career, he put in a sequence of gladiatorial performances that etched themselves into the minds of every rugby fan every bit as indelibly as the legendary early tries in Paris and Brisbane.

Honest, gritty, and thoughtful, The Test is not just an essential sports book. It is an essential book about family, friends, hard work, courage, and imagination.

©2014 Brian O'Driscoll (P)2015 Penguin Audio Rugby Sports Biography Career Inspiring Thought-Provoking

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Best biography I've listened to, well done to all involved. A must if you like or love rugby.

Brilliant

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Loved every bit of it.
More interesting because read by BOD himself.
THANKS FOR MEMORIES !

Great listen .

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Great prospective on all the competitions, defining games and tours of the last few years in the game!!!

Great instalment in the rugby history books!

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Read well and informative, I felt it was too nice ie there was a lot more going on but he doesn’t open up completely.
If you’re a rugby fan it will fill in some blanks.

A decent listen

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loved it and felt like it was written from memory and not researched from tv replays and match stats. He s very humble man who comes across as just, a normal guy who just so happened to be deadly at rugby.

very honest book

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