The true story of Tony Fingleton's figh to become a champion.
Set in Brisbane in the fifties.
Made into a movie starring Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis.
Released to fellow bookcrosser at Brisbane meetup.

I love books that are set in brisbane, will read this soon, I haven't seen the movie I won tickets to see it but couldn't get there. Picked up today at meetup at Stones Corner. Thanks

RELEASE NOTES:

at dinner trivia night

I got to the book dip table and thought about it.
Saw this wrapped in a box, lovely silver paper and bow, so I had to have it, even just for the box!!
Will read the book sometime, maybe see if I can find the movie to see after.

I started this book this afternoon. (Thursday 6 April)

I finished this book last night.
It was a very quick read.
Very interesting to find out about Tony's life, he had such a hard life growing up, with such an abusive father.
Luckily he had siblings and a great mother.
He was determined enough to achieve his goals without help from his father.
It was sad to see that many of the kids were looking to their father for praise and hardly ever got it.
I would love to see the movie of it, now that I have read the book.

I will take this to our next Meetup.