Fan

By Rhodes, Danny (Fiction writer)

Subjects: Accidents, England, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Stadiums Accidents z, Fiction, Sports stories, Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, Sheffield, England, 1989, Soccer fields, Stadiums

Description: In 1989, eighteen-year-old John Finch spends his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest up and down the country and the rest of the week trudging the streets of his hometown as a postal worker. His blossoming relationship with girlfriend Jen is his only other respite. In 2004 he spends his days teaching in a southern secondary school while delaying the inevitable onslaught of parenthood. Leading inexorably towards the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough, and the worst sporting disaster in British history, this book glides between 1989 and 2004, when the true impact of this tragic day becomes evid.