Boxer Handsome

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<p><b><i>'A genuinely impressive debut. Boxer Handsome does everything great fiction should... revealing a world that most people will never even think about. If you can't see what it is that people need from boxing, or why it somehow persists into the 21st century, then read this'</i>--<i>Guardian</i></b></p><p>Boxing runs in Bobbys blood. His Irish dad was a boxer. So was his Jewish grandfather. Yanked up by their collars at Clapton Bow Boys Club, taught how to box and stay out of trouble.</p><p>So Bobby knows he shouldnt be messing in street brawls a week before his big fight with Connor the Gypsy Boy, an Irish traveller from around the way. Theyre fighting over Theresa: a traveller girl with Connors name all over her. But Bobbys handsome, like his dad; boxer handsome.</p><p>For Bobby, the ring is everywhere and he cant afford to lose.</p>

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Anna Whitwham was born in 1981 in London, where she still lives. She studied Drama and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, Queens University Belfast and at Royal Holloway, London.<i>Boxer Handsome</i>is her first novel. It is a world Anna knows well: her grandfather, John Poppy, was a young featherweight boxer at Crown&Manor Boys Club in Hoxton. He is the inspiration behind this book.

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