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Wrecking Ball

By: Billy Vunipola
Narrated by: Nathan Turner
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About this listen

Voted Rugby Book of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards.

Wrecking Ball is a captivating and humorous memoir by Billy Vunipola, one of the stars of England's recent rugby renaissance, and will be enjoyed by those who have read the recent autobiographies by Jonny Wilkinson, Brian O'Driscoll, Dan Carter and Paul O'Connell.

Standing at 6 feet 2 inches and weighing almost 20 stone, Billy is a rampaging and unmissable presence on the rugby pitch, for both club and country.

Wrecking Ball is his captivating story so far, chronicling his remarkable personal odyssey of 10,000 miles, from the tiny Tongan village of Longo Longo to the imposing vastness of Twickenham.

Join Billy on his journey from the year-round sunshine of Tonga to the bitter cold of a British winter, from his favourite Pontypool kebab shop to finding himself eating broccoli for breakfast, and from carefree childhood games in the middle of the Pacific to the serious business of playing professional rugby in Europe.

Wrecking Ball is a wonderfully eccentric and witty book, written with bags of charm. It captures Billy's colourful family and upbringing, and creates a rounded and fascinating portrait of a young man finding his feet as a modern English rugby player.

©2017 Billy Vunipola (P)2017 Headline Audiobooks Rugby Sports Celebrity Witty Comedy

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This is one of the best books I’ve listened to and has really helped me as currently going through some injury’s...

Brilliant

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Not amazingly funny just a story of his life and his childhood is half the book

Alright

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Good stories from one of England's rugby stars full of entertaining views on Tongan/English culture.

Good Listen for a Rugby Fan

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I enjoyed listening to Billy’s story. It was extremely interesting listening and learning of his heritage. Loved to hear about the Tongan history and upbringing. Walking through peoples houses to cut the distance down made me chuckle. Some of the book was repetitive and a bit frustrating . I understood how the story was trying to be told, however I very nearly switched off. Perhaps this was to do with the narrator and not billy. Enjoyed it, however people with less patience may not.

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Nice book. You can't help but like Billy and his family and 'Wrecking Ball' is a good insight into what it's like to come from a small Rugby playing country like Tonga to a totally different life in the UK. I hope that the book will be updated in the future - the rest of his career will be an interesting story and would have to include the controversial events at Saracens.

Enjoyable.

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