Tessa Hadley

• May-2002
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A powerful literary debut chronicling a year in the life of one thoroughly modern familyClare Verey, a twenty-nine-year-old mother of three, bakes her own bread and grinds her own spices. She has a comfortable home in the suburbs and a devoted husban...

• Oct-2003
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The profoundly different choices of a mother and her daughter infuse this rich, expansive novel with both intimate detail and wide resonanceWhen Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Joyce...

• Jul-2007
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Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor a...

• Aug-2007
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A single woman at loose ends becomes the object of two men's affections--a father and his teenage son--in this sly, richly drawn novel After more than twenty years in London, Kate Flynn has returned to her family home in Wales to care for her aging ...

• May-2011
• / Literary
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Unsettled by the recent death of his mother, Paul sets out in search of Pia, his daughter from his first marriage, who has disappeared into the labyrinth of London. Discovering her pregnant and living illegally in a run-down council flat with a pair ...

• Nov-2012
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Tessa Hadley is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, including "The London Train," a New York Times Notable Book. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, Hadley returns to the short story form in this brilliant collection, her first since...

• Nov-2012
• / General Fiction
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Married Love is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today’s most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity; her powerful, ...

• Mar-2014
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Clever Girl is an indelible story of one woman’s life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain’s leading literary lights -- Tessa Hadley -- the author of th...

• Jan-2016
• / Literary
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Three sisters, a brother, and their children assemble at their country house one last time before it is sold. The house is filled with memories of their shared past yet beneath the idyllic surface, hidden passions, devastating secrets, and dangerous ...

• Apr-2016
• / Literary
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A short story by Tessa Hadley from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘My Mother’s Wedding’, a bohemian wedding party takes an unexpected turn for the bride and her daughter.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the ful...

• May-2017
• / Literary
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The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the ...

• Jan-2019
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The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in the latest from Tessa Hadley, the acclaimed novelist and short story master who “recruits admirers with each book” (Hilary Mantel). Alexandr and Christine and ...

• Feb-2022
• / Psychological Suspense
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From the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past comes a compulsive new novel about one woman’s sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London. 1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer fami...

• Jul-2023
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• Jul-2023
• / Psychological Suspense
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A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships -- Tessa Hadley is "one of the greatest stylists alive" (Ron Charles, Washington Post).A Best Boo...