![]() ![]() Not used to hanging out with people her own age, a touch self-conscious anyway and very much at an age where her world and her grasp of it is constantly changing, Pam hates Shirley's snide comments, especially as she realises that the crux of the issue is her friendship with Jess’s nice older brother Steve, who offers to coach her in tennis. Pam’s tennis ability is dragged into an old feud between Pam’s best friend at Hilverstone, the effervescent Jess, and their classmate Shirley, a good tennis player, but a girl who's more interested in boys than schoolwork, something of a fantasist and who treats Pam as an enemy. Pam is excited about being able to play tennis, although she soon learns that she was taught in an old-fashioned way at her old school, but she clearly loves the game, has talent and is discovered to be a born match player. She and her parents moved down south to the town where her mother grew up because of asthmatic Mrs Marsh’s chest problems. Pam Marsh is an only child about to begin her second term, the summer term, in the fourth form of Hilverstone High School – the town’s day school for girls. It's not a great book, although I liked the detail on the tennis and it was a quick read! I only remembered the story vaguely and picked it up for a reread because of the tennis theme. ![]() I bought this years ago for 10p in a charity shop. Pam Plays Doubles: Jean MacGibbon Constable 1962 ![]()
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