SPORTS: Tennis and RERAD: An Abbey book

Congratulations to Cam(eron) Norrie for winning Indian Wells the other week and thus becoming the male British no. 1. He’s one of the players who the freeze in rankings because of the pandemic didn’t help, and as I remember from Queen’s, has certainly been threatening to advance like this in 2021, and now he’s finally pushed through the barrier of winning a final, which much be all the sweeter as he did it from being down in the final set. Having said that, I see he’s out of the Vienna Open.

Selma at the Abbey: Elsie J. Oxenham, Collins, 1954 edition.

This is one of the ‘fill-in’ books, where EJO went back and filled in what had happened between her already published Abbey books – ( Read more... )