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Stroke of Luck book cover
Stroke of Luck
A short story
2015
First Published
3.70
Average Rating
54
Number of Pages

So many things that could have been different. An almost infinite number of the flight of the ball, the angle of the bat, the movement of his feet as he skipped down the pitch. The weather, the time, the day of the week, the whatever. The smallest variance in any one of these things or in the way that each connected to the other at the crucial moment and nothing would have happened as it did. An inch another way or a second or a step and it would have been a very different story. Of course it’s always a different story, but it isn’t always a story with bodies.... During a summer cricket match, Alan meets Rachel, and they start a relationship - but soon Alan discovers he is having an affair with a married woman. Though not a happily married one. Rachel's husband abuses her physically and psychologically, and Rachel is at her wits' end. Alan vows to protect her - but her husband is not the only one who is a threat. Rachel is being secretly watched....

Avg Rating
3.70
Number of Ratings
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Author

Mark Billingham
Mark Billingham
Author · 31 books

Also writes as Will Peterson with Peter Cocks. Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham. Having worked for some years as an actor and more recently as a TV writer and stand-up comedian his first crime novel was published in 2001. Mark lives in North London with his wife and two children.

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