''A rare talent, and certainly one to watch'' SUNDAY TIMES ''One of literature''s major new talents'' OBSERVER How do you mourn someone you never really knew? Three siblings - Anna, Gemma and Matthew - will have to work that out quickly. Monday is the day of their gentle, but distant, father''s funeral, and for the first time in a long while they are under one roof with their mother, imperious Yvonne, awaiting the arrival of their aunt Amy, an award-winning poet. Yet, as the funeral looms, their everyday concerns refuse to diminish: will newly sex-obsessed Gemma work out what she wants from life, beyond her mother''s expectations? Can Anna maintain the fine balance between desire and nonchalance with the sort-of, not-quite-exclusive boyfriend, back in London? Will Amy''s past explode the relationships of the present? And, crucially, will Yvonne pull off her grand, post-funeral family dinner, the solution to what she fears may be an unsolvable problem? Told from five different perspectives, into the wreck worries at the knotty complexities of one family''s bonds, written with Susannah Dickey''s trademark empathy and wit. Praise for Tennis Lessons ''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

Autorentext
Susannah Dickey is a writer from Derry. She is the author of two novels, Tennis Lessons (2020) and Common Decency (2022), which was an Irish Waterstones Book of the Month. Her debut poetry collection, ISDAL, was a Guardian and Irish Times Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the John Pollard Prize, and won the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize. She was the winner of the 2024 Irish Chair of Poetry Travel Award and was a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2020, and her poetry and poetry criticism has appeared in the Poetry Review, Poetry London, the TLS, and Poetry Ireland Review. Her short fiction has appeared in The Dublin Review, The Fence, and The White Review, was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award and shortlisted in The Moth Nature Writing Prize. She has had fiction and nonfiction broadcast on BBC R4 and BBC R3.

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'A wonderfully stylish writer with an unwavering eye' JOHN PATRICK McHUGH
**'Perfectly calibrated . . . These characters spike off the page' A. K. BLAKEMORE**

How do you mourn someone you never really knew?

Three siblings - Anna, Gemma and Matthew - will have to work that out quickly. Monday is the day of their gentle, but distant, father's funeral, and for the first time in a long while they are under one roof with their mother, imperious Yvonne, awaiting the arrival of their aunt Amy, an award-winning poet.

Yet, as the funeral looms, their everyday concerns refuse to diminish: will newly sex-obsessed Gemma work out what she wants from life, beyond her mother's expectations? Can Anna maintain the fine balance between desire and nonchalance with her not-quite-exclusive boyfriend back in London? Will Amy's past explode the relationships of the present? And, crucially, will Yvonne pull off her grand, post-funeral family dinner, the solution to what she fears may be an unsolvable problem?

Told from five perspectives, into the wreck worries at the knotty complexities of one family's bonds, written with Susannah Dickey's trademark empathy and wit.

A rare talent, and certainly one to watch' SUNDAY TIMES
**'One of literature's major new talents' OBSERVER
'O****ne of the funniest and most insightful novelists writing today' NELL FRIZZELL**

Zusammenfassung
From a rising literary star and multi-award-winning poet, comes a hilarious and sharp novel exploring the knotty complexities of one family's relationships