THE ONLY STORY

Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, whi ch we turn into countless stories. But there's only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine.One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul comes home from university, aged nineteen, and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. In the mixed-doubles tournament he's partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who's forty-eight, confident, ironic, and marrie...[Read more]