The Good Losers
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4.3 • 10 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Callie March is fascinated by human absurdity, including the habits of the upper class. So when she pushes her screen-addicted teenage son to join a local rowing club, she is thrilled to discover a whole new world of odd behaviours, irrational obsessions and riverside rooting.
Thrust into a support crew and a very silly uniform, Callie has inadvertently volunteered for a season of pre-dawn parenting, endless fundraising, and pandering to insufferable dickheads. But she also finds friendship, intrigue and lust, while her son might just find love.
Callie is torn between enchantment and repulsion, until a trail of corruption and scandal leads to deep suspicion. There's something fishy in the rowing shed, and Callie is determined to find out what lurks behind the closed doors of this sports club. In doing so, she will rock the boat - or better still, capsize it altogether.
This novel is set in northern Tasmania. It contains profundity, profanity, heart-ache, bum chafe, terrible winners and very good losers.
Praise for Meg Bignell:
'a boisterous tale of music, friendship and women's rights' - Books+Publishing
'a feminist grenade disguised as a book' - Rebecca Sparrow
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
There’s a bit of everything in Meg Bignell’s fourth novel: drama, comedy, romance, intrigue—even a touch of Harry Styles. The author of The Angry Women’s Choir centres her latest novel on a chaotic rowing club in northern Tasmania, which gives her ample opportunity to explore the specific energy of its very different members. These include narrator Callie March, a single mum who’s nearing 50 and worried about her ailing father while trying to pry her teen son Pip away from his cherished screens. As Callie and Pip collide with a whole stew of personalities—complete with cheeky group-chat dynamics and another teen’s gleefully over-the-top slang—Bignell integrates a casual procession of zippy punchlines. And Bignell reads the audiobook herself, enjoying every chance to inhabit the distinctive speech patterns of her characters.
