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As a young reporter, Celia Walden will get an unusual assignment: track down a worldwide superstar and keep him from all other journalists. That man is soccer player George Best, who made his debut for Manchester United at years 17 and was the legend of a legend team throughout the 1960s. Enormously skilled and ruggedly attractive, idolized by men and women likewise, he was known as 'the fifth Beatle', but still holds a company place one of the world's all-time best players. However in 2004, George Best is nearing 60 and deteriorating just like a much older man. A notorious alcoholic and philanderer, he has just received a liver transplant and has Antabuse tablets sewn into his belly lining. His better half has still left him again. When Celia locates him in a club in Malta, he isn't exactly delighted to see her. He's been chased by journalists all his life. Yet as Celia's assignment to "babysit" George night and day stretches out over weeks, an unlikely type of camaraderie develops, and she gets to know George as a funny, volatile, and sophisticated human being, a devoted reader and person in MENSA, ravaged by alcoholic beverages and little by little withering under the constant glare of the limelight. Babysitting George is a sensitive account of a unique relationship between a young journalist and a dying legend. It questions the exploitative mother nature of tabloid journalism; the terrifying, all-consuming mother nature of dependency; and the implausible meetings that can change one's life.
