The Test

My Autobiography

Brian O'Driscoll

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Penguin Books Ltd
02 April 2015

Autobiography: sport; Rugby football

The greatest rugby player in the world tells his own story

Between 1999, when he made his international debut, and his retirement in 2014, there was no greater player in world rugby than Brian O'Driscoll.

Along the way, he was tested - by personal loss, off-the-field pressures and career-threatening injuries. The Test is a book about how he took on those challenges - how a world-class talent developed a world-class work ethic and temperament - and, in the latter stages of his career, reinvented

himself as a player.

Honest, gritty and thoughtful, The Test is not just an essential sports book. It is an essential book about family, friends, hard work, courage and imagination.

By: Brian O'Driscoll
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 307g
ISBN: 9780241962688
ISBN 10: 0241962684
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 02 April 2015
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in Dublin in 1979, Brian O'Driscoll is the most celebrated rugby player of our time. He won three Heineken Cups with Leinster, two Six Nations championships with Ireland, and toured four times with the British and Irish Lions, including as captain in 2005.

Reviews for The Test: My Autobiography

There are fascinating insights into the lengths he was willing to go to perform at the highest level * Sunday Business Post * A must-read insight into the life and mind of Ireland's greatest rugby player * Irish Mail on Sunday * The Test allows the reader to get to know O'Driscoll the person, the husband, the father and the friend. It is honest, charming and revealing - a thoroughly good read * Rugby World * O'Driscoll's honesty ... takes the reader to a place they simply have not been before -- Vincent Hogan * Irish Independent * A thoroughly enjoyable read ... After reading The Test I warmed even more to O'Driscoll as a player and a man. He stood for a new ethos in Irish sport that refused to accept mediocrity or glorious failure -- Fergal Keane * Irish Times *

Winner of Irish Book Awards: Bord Gais Energy Irish Sports Book of the Year 2014
Winner of Irish Book Awards: Bord Gais Energy Irish Sports Book of the Year 2014.