"The best cricket based novel I have read, an analogy is drawn between the way one has to wait, both in life and in the game, for one's fortune to change" - Matthew Engel, The Guardian

"There is a blasting passion and, when the novel expands itself to receive the final notes of tragedy, it does so with a cunning that recalls the game at its best" - William Trevor, The Guardian

Posted at a dusty flying-boat station on a sweltering stretch of coast in wartime West Africa is Flanders, an RAF photographer. Class, duty and desire all begin to crack in the heat as Turton - an officer but no gentleman - sets out to take from others what they prize most: self-esteem, standing, the final on the cricket square, and Caroline, the girl both Flanders and his friend Wakerley have fallen for.

A Season in Sinji is a sharp and quietly devastating story of men far from home, where simmering rivalries, thwarted love and frayed loyalties all come to a head in one unforgettable cricket match.

"This is the best of the novels" - JL Carr