Break Point
- Authors
- Rigby, Kate
- Publisher
- Kate Rigby
- Tags
- tennis , derbyshire , elderly woman , carers , venus williams , nostalgia , rusedski , young woman , agassi , hengist , manipulation , henman , gay women , navratilova , seeds , centre court , graf , affair , june , obsession , competitive , nineties , relationships , wimbledon , claustrophobia
- Date
- 2011-02-23T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.14 MB
- Lang
- en
_Alternate cover for 9781458004130_
It's the start of the 1999 Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Break Point is not
only about an obsession with Wimbledon: the game of tennis itself becomes a
metaphor for the other psychological matches taking place at the house of
peevish old Gwen McMahon. Careers come and go, but who will survive to the
final?
It's the beginning of the 1999 Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Bobbie and
girlfriend, June, have avidly followed the championships together for years.
But Bobbie and June have just split up after Bobbie slept with best friend
Babs. June has gone to Denmark and Bobbie gets a job caring for a difficult
old woman. Soon it’s not just Wimbledon where the competitive rallies, the
lobs and the drop-volleys are being played, as carers fall like seeds, and
only those with the deadliest return of serve may survive to the final.