A modern-day Cain and Abel, almost.īlood Over Water’s format takes a little time to adjust to: first-person, diary-style extracts jolt the reader from boat to boat, from one camp to another. This was no playful sibling rivalry seven months of eye-wateringly intense training was the precursor to a four-mile race that saw them go to the outer reaches of their physical limits to annihilate each other on the River Thames, fuelled by a surprisingly powerful mutual loathing. Why do competitors in Irish intervarsity disciplines as diverse as ultimate frisbee and fencing share a mutual disdain for all things Trinity, who in turn, have something of a siege mentality?ĭavid and James Livingston do a fine job of plumbing the depths of a bloody-minded desire to win at all costs, in the name of your college - with a fascinating sibling feud thrown in.Ī shared love of rowing, but divergent academic paths, saw them pitched against each other in the famed Oxford V Cambridge Boat Race in 2003, the first brothers in rival crews in more than a century.
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