Now at 37, she decides to come out of her retirement and play for one last year so that she may reclaim her record. She retired after having won twenty Grand Slam titles, but now six years later, as she is sitting in the stands to watch the 1994 US open and her world record being broken by the stunning and magnificent player Nicki Chan, she can’t help but feel a tad disappointed.Īnd that’s when she makes a monumental decision, a decision that is bound to write her name in the pages of sports history. She is trained and coached by none other than her father Javier who didn’t stop at anything just to get Carrie to where she is. “Some men’s childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.” – Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto is BackĬarrie Soto is the best tennis player ever to walk this planet she has broken all the records just by her sheer willpower and determination to win at any cost. Well, if this doesn’t convince you to pick the book up, I don’t know what will. So far, it has an astonishingly high rating of 4.26 stars on the platform, as rated by 197k+ readers. The book turned out to be one of my favourite reads from 2022 and that’s one reason why you will certainly see me talking and writing a lot about it.īut it’s not just me, readers all over the world loved this book equally, so much so that Carrie Soto is Back also won the Goodreads Best Historical Fiction Award 2022.
Once I went through that emotional and highly satisfying ride, there was simply no going back for me. The latest in her kitty – Carrie Soto is Back is no exception to it. She is one author who needs no introduction and if you still haven’t read her yet, I urge you to pick up any book and you won’t be disappointed! That’s how magical and striking her writing is. Her stories are always emotional and very much character based and I always end up loving each and every work by her. Taylor Jenkins Reed is one of my favourite authors, a sort of an auto-buy if you will. – Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto is Back
“We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”
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