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I’m fortunate to live very close to a leisure club [in Perthshire, Scotland] that has a fabulous gym, steam room, and swimming pool. I’ll go to the gym and do 15 minutes on the exercise bike. I find being in the gym really boring, so I always bring a book with me. I’ll go down to the outdoor hot pool, where I do a lot of my stretching exercises. Stretching is incredibly important as you get older – I’ve got five grandchildren and I want to be able to chase after them! 8.30am Whilst the overall story line is a little far fetched, (or is it? Emma Radacanu won a grand slam from a wild card entry), the details feel very realistic and this must come from Judy’s vast experience in the sport. I loved the characters, and had that slight disappointment you get when you have to leave them behind as the novel finishes.
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Yet as those long-buried dreams of lifting the sparkling silver trophy on centre court inch closer, Abi knows that it's only a matter of time before the press start digging into her past and uncover the secret she's kept hidden for so long. Most novels I’ve read don’t dig quite as deeply into the past as this, and the few that do don’t in …I really wanted to love this book. It was perfectly timed to read alongside Wimbledon fortnight and I admire Judy Murray for her foray into something different by writing, but sadly it fell really flat for me. It was predictable from beginning to end, which can be okay in a book like this if the writing is great - unfortunately, it’s not. There’s so much ‘tell’ rather than ‘show’. It felt like the end was written in a rush, three really obvious typos - the plural of a word in error, completely wrong spelling of another and a sentence which had been repeated within itself. Again, these wee things are easy to overlook when the story has you completely immersed. I felt I was skim reading this in the end just to get it finished. Positives - a lovely insight to behind the scenes of the Wimbledon location itself, the changing rooms and players spaces, Abi as the main character was ‘nice’ and you did root for her yet I couldn’t help feel she could’ve been more impactful. Downsides? It felt like a half hearted attempt to show the dark side of coaching in sports, but didn’t really hit the mark. Predictable, lazy bits of the story to tie things up, it just felt meh. Very average 2.5 rounded up to 3 because I can't find enough fault with it to be a 2 star. It was fine, very readable and told in a simple style but without much heart or chemistry in a lot of the characters. I did enjoy the story, even if you could see what was coming a mile off, I think tighter writing could have kept that a bit more hidden. Save DM: LJF The Sensory Illusions, j2oh + Vulliamy Murray Duo to your collection. Share DM: LJF The Sensory Illusions, j2oh + Vulliamy Murray Duo with your friends. Zoë Strachan’s latest novel is an immersive, finely-drawn family saga. Following the lives of Rena a …
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