Author:Brian O'Driscoll,Aidan Kelly
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 Testis 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.
A thoroughly enjoyable read ... After reading The Test I warmed even more to O'Driscoll as a player and a man. He stood for a new ethos in Irish sport that refused to accept mediocrity or glorious failure
—— Fergal Keane , Irish TimesO'Driscoll's honesty ... takes the reader to a place they simply have not been before
—— Vincent Hogan , Irish IndependentThere are fascinating insights into the lengths he was willing to go to perform at the highest level
—— Sunday Business PostA must-read insight into the life and mind of Ireland's greatest rugby player
—— Irish Mail on SundayThe Test allows the reader to get to know O'Driscoll the person, the husband, the father and the friend. It is honest, charming and revealing - a thoroughly good read
—— Rugby WorldCandid, personal and poetic
—— The ScotsmanAn affirmation of life and the resilience of the human spirit, and it left me wanting to seek out the places he visits
—— Alison Ashmore , Shropshire Review MagazineThe outdoor tradition of English writing stretches by way of Gilbert White and Borrow, Cobbett, Jefferies and Hudson, through Williamson to those few authentic outdoor and nature writers – Jim Crumley, Mark Cocker, Paul Evans, Andrew Fusek Peters – of the present day
—— Jim Perrin , Great Outdoors MagazineThis dream of a book[...]is as beautiful and uplifting as it is visceral
—— Lynne Roper , Outdoor Swimming SocietyLyrical [and] refreshingly candid
—— The CountrymanWith an eye for detail and a skilful way with words, Peters is an entertaining guide
—— H2OpenDickinson makes Moore sound more human… One suspects this excellent biography comes close to describing the real Moore
—— UK Press SyndicationExcellent
—— Jon Wise, 5 stars , Weekend SportOutstanding
—— UK Press SyndicationDickinson manages to bring balance to this incredibly well-researched book
—— 4 stars , FourFourTwoDickinson is tender to the memory of the Essex lad who, for a breathtaking instant, was glorious
—— Ain Finlayson and Kate Saunders , Saga MagazineMatt's work is the most impressive West Ham book of the year, a genuine and sincere attempt to get to the root of the man. It is an excellent, thought-provoking book
—— Knees Up Mother BrownA compelling and complete account
—— SportIn The Man in Full, acclaimed football writer Matt Dickinson traces the journey of this Essex boy, peeling away the layers of legend and looking at Moore’s life from all sides – in triumph, in failure, in full
—— Bert Wright , NudgeOutstanding... this excellent biography comes very close to describing the real Bobby Moore
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