Tales from the Bedroom Floor

London: Channel 4 Books, 2001 Why is this book on the bedroom floor? - It’s long been on my to-read list given the amount of research I’ve done into the field of psychoanalysis I’ve done over the past five years, and every profile of the author focusses on his off-field achievements at least as much as his first class record. So when I spotted it in a charity shop I had to pick it up. About the author - Mike Brearley played thirty-nine tests for England, captaining thirty-one of them. Three of these were during the famous Ashes series of 1981, in which he led England to a fanous 3-1 victory. In addition to his precocious excellence while still studying at Cambridge, he toured with the MCC and later captained Middlesex for a number of years. He obtained a degree in philosophy and later became a psychoanalyst, serving a brief period as president of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is now a writer and therapist. Plot - If you’ve ever dreamed of leading out eleven m