A simple boy with an amazing gift. A promise to a dying man. And a nation that wants to believe. Can a twelve-year-old boy be the hero his country needs? David Donald is a 12-year-old boy with an amazing bowling arm. He's a spinner who becomes the stuff of legend. His guardian, Uncle Michael, is also a spinner - a great Australian bullshit artist, a shyster and mythmaker. It's between the wars. It's the glory days of cricket. Together, David and Michael will rout the English and reveal more than a little about the shaping of the Australian psyche

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