A sports journalist sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment finds himself confronted by ghosts from the past when he disembarks at the railway station. Memories of one of his best most trusted friends a tragically young victim of cancer begin to flood through his mind as he attempts to go about the routine business of reporting a football match. B. S. Johnsons famous book in a box in which the chapters are presented unbound to be read in any order the reader chooses is one of the key works of a novelist now undergoing an enormous revival of interest. It is a book of passionate honesty & dark courageous humour: a meditation on death & a celebration of friendship which also offers a remarkably frank self-portrait of its author.