Diary of a Female Wrestler
New English Library, London, 1976
dedication:
To Sherron - who managed to break more than one rib throwing her stepfather
The blurb on the back:
Trudi Maxwell was twenty-one - and still a virgin. On her birthday her father, a professional wrestler, delivered a bombshell with her present - a letter saying that he was running off with another woman. Resilient Trudi knew she had to support her mother, and so she turned to the only game she knew well - wrestling. You might not have guessed that Trudi Maxwell was yet another pseudonym used by James Moffatt (the man who gave us Richard Allen), but you would have had a decent bet on it being a male writer. Writing a first-person narrative with a gender change is a tricky business, and one that Moffatt doesn't pull off. Frankly this is appalling stuff. At 128 pages, it's about a hundred pages too long, and you can't help but think that the research technique is given away by one of the characters: 'I've watched some of the documentary television versions of what goes on in the wrestling world of women.' You might be beter off checking out some proper books on wrestling. Who's wrestling here? Click to find out... ENTERTAINMENT VALUE: 1/5 HIPNESS QUOTIENT: 2/5 from the maker of...
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