Amid dreadful sexual abuse, sport brings grace in a school memoir that resists easy judgement
- Written by Lyn McCredden, Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
ShutterstockA friend likes to remind me about the one time I attended an Ashes test in Melbourne, Boxing Day, 1974. The crowd was waiting, excited, to watch the English team, and Dennis Amiss particularly, front up to the wicket. On he came, bravely facing just eight balls. Then he was caught out, having scored a paltry four runs. I cried. How...

















