Driven: A Daughter's Odyssey

By: Julie Heldman

Narrated by: Julie Heldman

In the mid-20th century, the Heldmans were tennis royalty. Julie was a volatile and gutsy tennis star, twice ranked number five in the world. Her mother Gladys was broadly admired for her unique magazine, World Tennis, and for engineering the women’s tennis revolution. No one guessed that Gladys’s hidden emotional abuse was the source of Julie’s powerful drive.

Driven is a highly listenable insider’s account of a pivotal time in women’s tennis history; an in-depth look at Gladys’s complex character; and the revealing story of Julie’s interior journey, both on and off the court.

©2018 Julie Heldman (P)2019 Julie Heldman

Fabulously captivating book by Julie.

You touched on so many things that I could relate to in my life as a mother , daughter , tennis player and high achiever ! Thank You !

saga of the toxic mother and the unloved daughter

brilliant, honest, painful and freeing. it will hurt if the same things happened to you.