41-Love

A darkly funny sports memoir about a mid-life crisis, exercise addiction, tennis, and how to grow up when you really, really don't want toAt forty-one, Scarlett Thomas was a successful novelist and a senior academic. Shed quit smoking, gotten healthier, settled down in a lovely house with a wonderful partner. Shed had all the therapy. Then her beloved dog died. Her parents started to get sick right around the time she realized she was never going to be a mother herself. For the first time in her life, maintaining her ideal weight had become nearly impossible. She was supposed to grow up, but she didnt know how. So instead she decided to regress, to go back to the thing shed loved best as a child but had inexplicably abandoned: tennis. Thomas knows shes not the only person to have wondered whether throwing enough money and time and passion at something can make your dream come true. 41Love is heartbreaking but frequently...