The Kilburn Social Club
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The Kilburn Social Club is a Premiership football team of opera singers, academics and South African freedom fighters. It s a dream, a club where no one is more equal than anyone else, managed by an enigmatic war hero, inspired by a gay Argentinian millionaire and led by the restless, World Cup-winning Great Britain captain, and backed by the Rosslare Group, a Liberal-utopian business empire. A medical student inherits KSC and the Rosslare Group. Can she protect them from the hungry world, from rapacious tycoons, snakes in the grass and the blunderbuss venality of money? Why should she have to, and does she even want to? And how will she cope with her football-crazy sister s jealousy? From doomed lust to innocence defiled, from hopeless loss to dulled acceptance to hope reborn, this is an old-fashioned heroes and villains state-of-the-nation romance set in a wish-fulfilment alternative London. The Kilburn Social Club is a story of love, idealism and identity in something like modern, multicultural Britain. It doesn t demand any football pre-knowledge it s for sceptics and sports lovers alike, neither cynical about what makes fans tick nor devoted to parroting the press-release
Author: Robert Hudson
Format: Paperback, 496 pages, 153mm x 231mm, 658 g
Published: 2009, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
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The Kilburn Social Club is a Premiership football team of opera singers, academics and South African freedom fighters. It s a dream, a club where no one is more equal than anyone else, managed by an enigmatic war hero, inspired by a gay Argentinian millionaire and led by the restless, World Cup-winning Great Britain captain, and backed by the Rosslare Group, a Liberal-utopian business empire. A medical student inherits KSC and the Rosslare Group. Can she protect them from the hungry world, from rapacious tycoons, snakes in the grass and the blunderbuss venality of money? Why should she have to, and does she even want to? And how will she cope with her football-crazy sister s jealousy? From doomed lust to innocence defiled, from hopeless loss to dulled acceptance to hope reborn, this is an old-fashioned heroes and villains state-of-the-nation romance set in a wish-fulfilment alternative London. The Kilburn Social Club is a story of love, idealism and identity in something like modern, multicultural Britain. It doesn t demand any football pre-knowledge it s for sceptics and sports lovers alike, neither cynical about what makes fans tick nor devoted to parroting the press-release
The Kilburn Social Club