"A Sky-Blue Life" is a cricket novel, first published in 1956, about a Test Match between England and Australia. It is widely considered to be one of the best examples of its genre, written by a distinguished author of the day and combining cricketing authenticity with the novelist's depth of human insight.The scene is in Melbourne, Australia, where an imaginary post-Hutton England Test team is faced with a second innings total of 473 runs to make in eight hours in order to win the match, or bat out four sessions to hold on for a draw. And because cricketers are human beings like everyone else, the captain's calculated decision to go for the runs forces each of them to reveal, by his response, the truth about his character. Over by over the tension mounts, the wickets fall and both captains use every tactical trick in the book. If skipper Driffield has made the right judgment, England will secure the Ashes in the most crushing style. If he has got it wrong, he will be ridiculed and humiliated."Coldspring Editions" is a new imprint dedicated to the reissuing of some of the best writing, fiction and non-fiction, about cricket.