We’re publishing Confessions of an Ageing Figure Skater on 6 May and here’s your chance to review it, completely free!
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Anything but the Truth
Hardly a day goes by without someone telling us off about our bodies: they’re too big, too small, in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they just don’t behave in the way we want them to.
How we interact with contemporary sport can be a productive way to explore our relationship with our bodies and how they respond to the demands we make of them. We follow performers and athletes, clubs and countries, the ups and downs of the elite; and we are encouraged – daily – to get off our sofas, to join in and be part of some team or another. We identify, and sometimes, over-identify with our sporting heroes. We become appalled at their behaviour when they fall from grace, but can’t help getting drawn into their stories, whatever age we are, and whatever age they are.
The Confessions series of books explores these matters in, hopefully, an entertaining and thought-provoking manner. Whilst a particular sport might be more prominent, the books themselves are not really about that sport at all. Tennis Player explored dreams and delusions; Footballer, loneliness; and Basketball Player was my take on the Covid-19 pandemic.
Confessions of an Ageing Figure Skater follows this tradition by exploring the expectations of growing up and adulthood.
Where previous editions of the Confessions series explored the condition of the ageing sports person from one end of the age spectrum (usually a narrator who is looking back at their life), Figure Skater is written from a young person’s point of view. A person in their teenage years who has, for various reasons explored through the story, aged prematurely.
Unlike Peter Pan, the boy who never wanted to grow up, Peter, the narrator of this story, has had to grow up much too soon. Set in Brighton at the turn of the 1960s and early 1970s, we hope Figure Skater will thrill you with its turns, spins and leaps of imagination! If you’d like to be one of the first to review it just leave us your contact details below and we’ll get a copy over to you as fast as we can!
(And please don’t worry if your review is damning with faint, major or non-existent praise! All feedback is helpful, really it is!)
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