The Network is a delayed sequel to Richard Heller’s much praised cricket novel A Tale Of Ten Wickets.  It is narrated by its principal characters, especially its young hero, in vivid dialogue with deep personal feelings. Richard Heller says: “It was originally intended as a short sequel. The characters took it over and turned into a family saga of Dickensian length -  and sentimentality  (I keep blubbing myself and I wrote the thing!) For that reason I am publishing it, Dickens-style, on episodes, only online rather than in Household Words. I hope that readers will subscribe to the first episode, on www.epublishingonline.co.uk and stay with it to the end, for just £1 each fortnight. They will encounter a rich parade of characters with their own story to tell. As in early Dickens, they will see good people rewarded, bad people punished (including an indescribably loathsome politician) and a multiple series of happy endings.”