I Lost My Heart To The Belles

Pete Davies

Sept 2014 · Random House

About this eBook

What kind of women play football? Factory workers, bank clerks, policewomen, students and shop assistants, they come together on a Sunday united by a passion for the game all too woefully absent from the money-drenched circus of professional sport. Fired by a Collective clan, an infectious joie de vivre, over the past dozen years the Doncaster Belles have been successful beyond the dreams of any other women's team. Pete Davies spends a season with the Belles - and finds a unique group of people with an abundance of talent, and a vividly earthy sense of humour. They play hard in the pit villages and nightclubs of South Yorkshire, they play hard on tatty pitches in run-down suburbs and industrial estates - but they play for love too, and to a standard that could convert the most blinkered chauvinist. At a time when more and more women are both watching and playing football, this club have been trailblazers; in this rich, diverting and passionate book, Davies make it plain why you too, once you've met them, will lose your heart to the Belles.

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About the author

Pete Davies is the author of 11 acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction. His 1990 classic All Played Out was a bestseller and has been in print ever since. It has recently made into a 90 minute film directed by James Erksine, with the new title One Night in Turin. Pete Davies lives in West Yorkshire.