The ruthlessly honest, bold and darkly funny autobiography of global tennis star Maria Sharapova. In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter get off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight for the Nick Bollettieri tennis academy. They ring the bell, even though no one is expecting them and they don’t speak English. They have arrived from Russia with just seven hundred dollars and the belief that this six-year-old girl will be the next great tennis star in the world. And they are right.

This is the exciting and bold autobiography of Maria Sharapova, who told her story from her roots in the small Siberian town that her parents left after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to her arrival in the United States with nothing, and her incredible rise to success - winning Wimbledon at just seventeen - to the disasters that threatened her career and her struggle to get back on her feet.

‘A captivating memoir’ David Shaftel, Financial Times. ‘An illuminating account... This is the Bildungsroman of a controversial champion, a portrait of the athlete as a remarkably determined young woman’ Julia Felsenthal, Vogue.