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FOR ALL THOSE LEFT BEHIND (Books and Videos)
By John AndrewsPublication Date: 13 October 2003 Price: £7.99 Paperback)Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2002Shortlisted for the NSC & Ladbrokes Best New Writer 2003Shortlisted for the Book of the Year 2003 by the Angling Writers’ Association‘As the weeks went on I began to wonder exactly what it was people meant when they asked if anyone had ever been taken by a pike. It was not as simple as summer bathers losing a foot or a hand in the shallows as they strayed too near the reeds, it was deeper and wilder than that. It was waking in the middle of the night, the sodium glow of the London sky lit like a cauldron outside and knowing that nailed to the wall downstairs was a fish under whose spell I had fallen. It implored me to pack my rods into the back of the car immediately and set off into the darkness.’For All Those Left Behind is a book about fishing. It is also a book about grief, loss - and, ultimately, identity. It’s about the compulsion to escape the hectic pace of modern life and the search for peace on the margins.When his father died in 1992, John Andrews thought there was nothing left unsaid between them, but as the years passed he came to realise that perhaps something had been left undone, unfinished. He began a subconscious search for these abandoned threads by starting to fish again, a pastime he had pursued with his father until the age of 15. What began as a good excuse to get away from the London rat race gradually developed into a personal journey that was to take him back to the very heart of the relationship between himself and his father.In 1999, Andrews was made redundant from Creation Records, home of Primal Scream, Oasis, Teenage Fanclub and others. Told he could walk into any job in the music industry, he decided instead to start writing.In haunting prose, Andrews describes his search to come to terms with his loss, taking the reader on his personal odyssey from Skye to Ireland and from Cuba to the green fields of Albion. For All Those Left Behind is a deeply moving memoir and a paean to the redemptive powers of the tranquillity and joys of fishing.‘The book is an intense song in the authentic voice of an angler making new connections within an ancient pursuit. It sets a high standard for the responsibility that angling literature has to decode the burning question
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This book will strike a chord with many anglers, who have saddly lost their Fathers. A wonderful read and just not to be missed, a new talented author has emerged.
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