Tennis Lessons (Paperback)
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Tennis Lessons (Paperback)

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Published: 06/05/2021
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For fans of I MAY DESTROY YOU and FLEABAG and for readers who want to laugh and cry: the brave, beautiful, sometimes brutal story of a young misfit and her rocky road to womanhood, stopping at each year along the way.


'I loved Tennis Lessons so much. Susannah is a phenomenally talented writer' ELIZABETH DAY

'A raw, fierce, shockingly honest coming-of-age story' LOUISE O'NEILL

'Incredibly funny . . . by turns charming and disgusting and I loved it' NELL FRIZZELL


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.


'Brilliant . . . a wonderful writer, hugely talented, very funny and insightful' ALAN DAVIES

'Propulsive . . . brilliantly vivid . . . stays in the mind long after reading' IRISH TIMES

'A beautifully written and psychologically incisive bildungsroman...the arrival of a young writer to watch' OBSERVER

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9781784165055
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 179 g
Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 17 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

This is a raw, fierce, shockingly honest coming-of-age story. Tennis Lessons heralds the arrival of a startling new voice in literary fiction - Louise O'Neill

I loved Tennis Lessons so much - ELIZABETH DAY

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. - Nell Frizzell

A beautifully written and psychologically incisive bildungsroman...the arrival of a young writer to watch - Observer

Brilliant . . . a wonderful writer, hugely talented, very funny and insightful. - Alan Davies

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“An excellent debut”

Thanks to Transworld and NetGalley for an advance e-copy of this title.

I really enjoyed Tennis Lessons; it’s an endearing and strange look at being a young woman, growing up at roughly the same time as I did.... More

Hardback edition
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“Tells it as it is”

A coming of age story that tells it as it is.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC in return for an honest and unbiased opinion

Hardback edition
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“Some Grim Lessons... women lose!”

This is a strange book and I have to say that I didn’t warm to the story or the characters. It’s written in a series of episodes in the life of a young woman beginning when she is not much more than a toddler and... More

Hardback edition
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