Graham Thorpe's achievements on the pitch have often contrasted wildly with his personal problems away from cricket, where drink and depression have often combined to send him spiralling off the rails. With painful candour and often unexpected humour, Thorpe dissects his career in cricket and the inner recesses of his private life—the impact of his bitter divorce, the suicidal depression that afflicted him in his darkest hours, the reasons why he needed to 'save himself' by withdrawing from past England tours, and his fresh outlook in life with a new partner after confronting his own failings and past troubles.
Graham Thorpe was born in 1969. A lifelong middle-order batsman for Surrey CCC, he scored a century on his England Test debut against the Australians in 1993 and has been at the forefront of world cricket ever since, having played over 90 Tests and scored 15 Test hundreds. He has two children, Henry and Amelia, and is a high-profile supporter of the Fathers 4 Justice movement. Simon Wilde is the chief cricket writer on The Sunday Times.