The Thursday Four is a novel told in a series of monologues with an overarching story line exploring the friendships, love, betrayals and heartbreaks of a disparate group of women who play tennis. Jean: De dum is the chant Laurence uses in his coaching. De the ball bounces, dum you hit it. De dum. De dum. It seems to work. He's a good enough tennis coach but a hapless businessman. I simply cannot understand what it is with these modern men. No gumption, nothing fully functioning above the belt. Cherish: What is wrong with ...
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The Thursday Four is a novel told in a series of monologues with an overarching story line exploring the friendships, love, betrayals and heartbreaks of a disparate group of women who play tennis. Jean: De dum is the chant Laurence uses in his coaching. De the ball bounces, dum you hit it. De dum. De dum. It seems to work. He's a good enough tennis coach but a hapless businessman. I simply cannot understand what it is with these modern men. No gumption, nothing fully functioning above the belt. Cherish: What is wrong with me dumped among these demented hens? I'm sitting here mewing with these de dum, de dum dames. Thirty-four next year is no longer young, not yet mature, is a dangling nowhere age. I need a man. Am in manhunt mode. I have tried to dismiss this urge, taken time out with yoga and celibacy, joined the tennis club and ended up in a ladies four and six pounds over-weight. Doreen: There is no law of nature to say you automatically love your children. Sara is seven, my only child and I have never liked her, let alone loved her. Not even from day one... Sara Gemma Antonia Louise has from birth been a grizzling whiner. Good thing I didn't call her Joy, which could easily have happened as it was my mum's second name.
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