- Published: 16 July 2020
- ISBN: 9781473573420
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Tennis Lessons
- Published: 16 July 2020
- ISBN: 9781473573420
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
A fresh-eyed read. It's funny and honest, brutally so, and every so often sneaks up and punches you right in the guts. It's the kind of book you read in one furious sitting, then find yourself mulling over for weeks to come. Susannah Dickey's got a strange and sublime way of seeing the world.
Jan Carson
Recalling the grotesque of Christine Schutt and Deborah Levy, Susannah Dickey’s Tennis Lessons is an achingly vital novel, a work of blood and flesh, convulsing in the heat of mortality.
Kevin Breathnach
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
Tennis Lessons is a singular creation - a vivid, funny, emotionally intelligent dissection of an ordinary life.
Nicole Flattery
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
So compelling . . . darkly funny . . . a powerful account of a girl becoming a woman.
Hot Press
Gently comic and compassionate
Independent
A beautifully written and psychologically incisive bildungsroman...the arrival of a young writer to watch
Observer
Terrific... astute, tender, raw... very funny
Metro
Dickey scorchingly captures the awkward, aching longing of a misfit...shot through with honesty
Psychologies
Propulsive . . . brilliantly vivid . . . stays in the mind long after reading
Irish Times
elevating the ordinary with luscious prose . . . [Tennis Lessons] gives us the magical ability of seeing this tired old world with brand new eyes. What an invaluable gift, and what a beautiful book.
Culturefly
Wonderfully shocking . . . a stunning, original debut.
Irish Examiner
Fundamentally intimate . . . beguiling . . . A novel about being normal that is anything but.
Irish Independent
Effective and pacy.
Strong words
Absolutely brilliant . . . touchingly captures the awkward, aching longing of a misfit . . . darkly funny
Express
Brilliant . . . a wonderful writer, hugely talented, very funny and insightful.
Alan Davies
I loved Tennis Lessons so much
Elizabeth Day