The sun scarcely graced the English cricket scene with its presence in 1978, but when it did it seemed to adorn the blond head of David Gower ... to attend Marlborough House preparatory school ...

David Gower was bored. So bored. The empty room's silence had invaded his head, where it clanged about senselessly. Blinds on the windows blotted out much of what little daylight had seeped ...