Meet the tournament hosts: self-made man Patrick and his brash and beautiful wife Caroline, out to impress with their new country house.
Meet the guests: Stephen and Annie, their impoverished former neighbors; social climber Charles and his aristocratic new wife Cressida; and the ruthlessly competitive father-and-daughter team Don and Valerie.
As the first ball is served over the net so begins two days of Pimms, tantrums, flirtation, deviousness and shock revelations. It soon becomes obvious that the weekend is about anything but tennis.
"The sort of bright, hilarious novel you want to read while flopping on a sun-lounger with a chilled spritzer to hand" Daily Mail
Sophie Kinsella writing as Madeleine Wickham, THE TENNIS PARTY, Black Swan Edition, 1995
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