Alex
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Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from One World by Michael Foreman, published by Andersen Press, (0 86264 289 2, £6.95). We are grateful to Andersen Press for their help in using this illustration and to Michael Foreman for the article.
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Tessa Duder's book has already won two awards in her native New Zealand, and it's not difficult to see why. The year is 1959, and Alex, a talented swimmer, hopes to qualify for the Rome Olympics. For all her numerous achievements, Alex has self-doubts and anxieties enough to make her a thoroughly sympathetic and likeable character. Whereas a lesser writer would have gone on to show Alex winning an Olympic Gold, Tessa Duder leaves her at the qualifying races with a sense of having overcome her personal tribulations - a satisfying end to a moving and engrossing book.
