An Affair to Remember — Hawthorn (Part 1)

This is a longish piece I published in a sports anthology called, ‘Best on Ground, Great Writers on the Greatest Game’, Penguin. It's about my footy club, and me.

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This is a piece the late great crime fiction writer Peter Corris asked me to write about my love affair with Hawthorn. How it came to be, how it flourished, the falling out period, the renewed passion. It’s qui…