Off the Track

'From its first paragraph almost to its last, Smith's precise, luxuriant prose style dazzles in its ability to simultaneously set off syntactical fireworks and marshall precisely into shape the considered thoughts of a lifetime's intellectual curiosity and self-reflection.' – Dylan Moore, Nation.CymruA boy running around a running track in the early evening opens a memoir of candour and insight.From a working-class Rhondda childhood through to the glamour of Barry Grammar and onto a coveted Ball