Peter Pan's First XI
Kevin Telfer
Sceptre - $38.99

The story of the most extraordinary cricket team to ever take
the field.

Like Bookman Beattie , J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, was a hugely enthusiastic cricketer of very little talent. However that didn’t stop him from leading perhaps the most extraordinary amateur cricket team to
ever take the field. Some of the twentieth century’s most famous
writers including A. A. Milne, P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome K.
Jerome, regularly turned out for Barrie’s team between 1890
and 1913. This very Edwardian vision of village cricket was only
brought to an end by the First World War.

Those years of golden summers were recounted in Barrie’s letters
and journals, many revealed here for the first time. Cricket
lovers will identify with Barrie’s attempts to assemble a team of
competent players.

In Peter Pan’s First XI, Kevin Telfer weaves together cricket, literature, history, humour and biography to create an entertaining account of this little-known band of cricketing Peter Pans, and the age in which they lived.