Ian Ridley's poignant memoir coping with grief amid cricket's quiet solitude | Andy Bull

Writer’s book about about love, pain and watching sport offers ‘peace, space and time’ for those seeking solace in a crowd Like you, I have a pile of books on my bedside table, a tottering stack of novels I didn’t get on with and non-fiction I couldn’t get into, some I hardly started, others I never finished. I tell myself I will get back to them one day, when the time’s right. This year, the one on top was Ian Ridley’s The Breath of Sadness. It’s