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Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
Clare is married, with three small children, she bakes her own bread and buys her clothes from the charity shop. Her best friend Helly is a model and has her golden curves pasted up on billboards ten feet high. Each of them seems to want what the other has.
After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of the twelve stories in After the Funeral, small events have huge consequences. Heloise's father died in ...Show more
Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party. In these gripping and unsettling stories, the ordinary is m ...Show more
Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
In these short stories it's the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric, say, and a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, strange in the dark; a house ...Show more
Free Love by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a compulsively readable novel about a suburban housewife's reawakening in 1960s London 'Tessa Hadley is my favourite author' KATE ATKINSON It's 1967 and London is alive with the new youth revolution. In the suburbs, meanwhile, Phyllis Fischer inhabits a w ...Show more
Free Love by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
From Tessa Hadley, 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 family seems to belong to an older world of conventi ...Show more
Late In The Day (HB) by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
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 Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in th ...Show more
Late in the Day: The classic Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of Free Love by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead. In the wake of thi ...Show more
Married Love by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiance is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior. We fol ...Show more
The London Train by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
A compelling and beautifully written new novel from the acclaimed Tessa Hadley: A remarkable portrayal of a man and woman whose lives collide on the Cardiff to London train. Paul lives in the Welsh countryside with his wife Elise and their two young children. One day he learns that his eldest daught ...Show more
The Past by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
'There is something reassuring yet deliciously unexpected about a Tessa Hadley novel.' - Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph Over five novels and two collections of stories Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts, and been compared with Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. ...Show more