Tennis Lessons

Literature & Fiction

Dickey, Susannah

Contemporary

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Common Decency: A dark, intimate novel of love, grief and obsession

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Common Decency

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.\n'I loved Tennis Lessons so much' ELIZABETH DAY\n'A raw, fierce, shockingly honest coming-of-age story' LOUISE O'NEILL\n'Incredibly funny . . . by turns charming and disgusting and I loved it' NELL FRIZZELL\nYou're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning.\nThis 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.\nYou seem bound to fail, bound to break.\nBut 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.\nYou just need to find your place.\nFrom 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.\n'Brilliant . . . a wonderful writer, hugely talented, very funny and insightful' ALAN DAVIES\n'Propulsive . . . brilliantly vivid . . . stays in the mind long after reading' IRISH TIMES\n'A beautifully written and psychologically incisive bildungsroman...the arrival of a young writer to watch' OBSERVER

Black Swan.

There is an arresting and profound specificity to Susannah Dickey’s astute tragicomedy, in which the sky is ‘the colour of a cous cous salad’, gods rub shoulders with video game characters and everyone is enslaved to desire. Corrupting the classically male, reportedly frivolous hendecasyllabic form, Dickey forges a register that feels both ancient and millennial. At the centre of this work beats a star-bright pain, seen through the poems’ breezy vacillations and squandered love, crushed to a shimmer.

bloodthirsty for marriage

Poetry

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