# The Following Game

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- Book: [The Following Game](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-smith/the-following-game) ([The Following Game.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-smith/the-following-game.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-smith)
- Publisher: John Catt
- ISBN: 978-19-0809-501-5
- Published: 2011-06-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The Following Game is about passion and obsession. It's about cricket, family and poetry, but most of all it's about a father following his son's career in the public eye and the close relationship they share. Jonathan Smith is the father of Ed Smith, a prominent writer and former Kent, Middlesex and England cricketer. The Following Game is a follow-up to Jonathan's critically-acclaimed 2002 book The Learning Game, one of the most talked-about books in education over the last ten years.