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The Tennis Party (1995)

by Madeleine Wickham(Favorite Author)

2.79 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0552776696 (ISBN13: 9780552776691)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Black Swan

review 1: I tend to love most of what the author writes as Sophie Kinsella so I was excited to try her as Madeline Wickham, but I was really dissapointed.This book was pretty boring. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen but it just never got off the ground. Also, as another poster commented, if you don't know what a Lloyd's name is the main event of the story doesn't make sense! I had to look it up, but even still this story just never went past one boring weekend. Don't waste time on this one.
review 2: Liked it a lot... much better than her Sophie Kinsella novels.Central theme - a tennis party organized by a nouveau riche couple, inviting their rich as well as not-so-rich friends, who end up being an odd bunch. Tennis is of course, played, but more than that... more various hurts and strives and secrets simmer out and explode. I love delving into the lives of (fictional) people rather than just know superficial details about them. This book helped me to indulge in my voyeurism. There are a couple of cute, precocious kids, to add to the melee. less

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