$22.91
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2021
Summary
For fans of I May Destroy You and Adults, readers who want to laugh, cry, gasp, and nod along.
The brilliantly brave and darkly funny story of a girl’s tortuous and spectacular journey to womanhood, stopping at each year along the way. 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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784165055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784165050 |
| Author: | Susannah Dickey |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 18mm |
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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
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 *
Propulsive … brilliantly vivid … stays in the mind long after reading * Irish Times *
Absolutely brilliant … touchingly captures the awkward, aching longing of a misfit … darkly funny * Express *
Wonderfully shocking … a stunning, original debut. * Irish Examiner *
Fundamentally intimate … beguiling … A novel about being normal that is anything but. * Irish Independent *
Terrific… astute, tender, raw… very funny * Metro *
About The Author
Susannah Dickey
Susannah Dickey is a novelist and poet from Derry. She is the author of four poetry pamphlets- I had some very slight concerns (2017), genuine human values (2018), bloodthirsty for marriage (2020), and Oh! (2022). Her debut collection, ISDAL, will be published by Picador in Autumn 2023. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The TLS, The Poetry Review and The White Review, and her fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Tennis Lessons, was published in July 2020. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast and lives in London. Common Decency is her second novel.
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