Out of Time

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It is a book to read avidly from cover to cover * www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk * Excellent * Choice Magazine * Very enjoyable * The Financial Times * Out of Time describes with charm and self-deprecating humour the attractions of sexual fumbling, holidays abroad, the London music scene, Chinese food and much else. But this joyous book, a memoir of late adolescence laced with social and football history, is also a catalogue of both the untidiness and the limits of change, and a reminder that even in London opportunities were circumscribed and aspirations often throttled. -- Mark Damazer * The Financial Times * I loved it ... brings the year vividly alive -- Jim Crace Out of Time is a gentle and affectionate portrait of the capital's gradual awakening to the charm of pop culture at that time. * The Economist * The most enjoyable of these books -- Richard Williams in his round-up of the latest books relating to England's World Cup year * The Guardian * Chapman is as good on the background - a post-war childhood and adolescence, with bomb sites all around - as he is on the football. -- Richard Williams * The Guardian * An exuberantly brilliant memoir. There's a way we football fans have of clapping with our hands above our heads. There are many passages in Peter Chapman's book - even single sentences - that make me want to do just that in sheer admir-ation. For good measure, perhaps I'd throw in a cheer and an expletive of delight too. -- Adrian Chiles * The Tablet * Peter Chapman's exercise in nostalgia Out of Time reminds us of a year when for England, almost anything seemed possible, on and off the pitch, 1966 * Philosophy Football * This evocative book interweaves Peter's personal memories with recollections of major events of the time and, of course, that World Cup triumph * Choice *