Tennis Lessons
- Author Susannah Dickey
- Narrator Louisa Harland
- Publisher Transworld
- Publish Date 16 July 2020
- Run Time 6 hours and 27 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place.
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What to expect
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'Incredibly funny and honest . . . by turns charming and disgusting and I loved it' NELL FRIZZELL
The darkly funny, fiercely honest debut novel about a spirited young misfit and her rocky road to womanhood, stopping at each year along the way.
You’re strange and wrong. You’ve known it from the beginning.
This is the voice that rings in your ears. Because you never say the right thing. You’re a disappointment to everyone. You’re a far cry from beautiful – and your thoughts are ugly too.
You seem bound to fail, bound to break.
But you know what it is to laugh with your best friend, to feel the first tentative tingles of attraction, to take exquisite pleasure in the affront of your unruly body.
You just need to find your place.
From dead pets and crashed cars to family traumas and misguided love affairs, Susannah Dickey's revitalizing debut novel plunges us into the private world of one young woman as she navigates her rocky way to adulthood.
©Susannah Dickey 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
This is a raw, fierce, shockingly honest coming-of-age story. Tennis Lessons heralds the arrival of a startling new voice in literary fiction
I loved Tennis Lessons so much
An incredibly funny and poignant portrait of what it is to be young, female and human. The whole thing is witty – the narrative voice, the dialogue, the plot and the detail – while also having searing moments of sadness, discomfort and cruelty. Susannah Dickey has created a world and a main character that is by turns disgusting and charming and I loved it.
A beautifully written and psychologically incisive bildungsroman…the arrival of a young writer to watch
Brilliant . . . a wonderful writer, hugely talented, very funny and insightful.
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