Tennis Lessons

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

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.