{"product_id":"9781526668523","title":"The Striker and the Clock by Georgia Cloepfil","description":"An exhilarating and searing memoir about life as a professional female footballer - and a beautiful examination of the joy and pain of serious athletics`Riveting ... A paean to the beautiful game' Los Angeles Times                    `It contained so much of what I love and find endlessly interesting about football ... A very lovely thinker and writer' Rebecca Watson`A compelling debut' Times Literary SupplementIn The Striker and the Clock, Georgia Cloepfil tells the story of her life in football: the triumph, the exhilaration, the deep bonds between teammates, and also the years of self-denial, exile and dedication, in which players try in vain to outpace a clock that ticks down toward an indeterminate ending.   What emerges is a profound meditation on what it is to have a body, and what it is to have the compulsion to push it to do the near impossible; and a love letter to the motivations, joys, pains and desires of a beautiful game.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55897387499893,"sku":"9781526668523","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526668523.jpg?v=1756999972","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781526668523","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}