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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
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
Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day.**WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE**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 accep ...Show more
Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)
Category: Fiction
"Tessa Hadley has proved herself to be a champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories, it's the ordinary things that turn out to be the most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket...each of these stories illuminates crucial mom ...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
Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley
Category: Fiction
All the qualities that readers praised in The London Train are present in Clever Girl, Tessa Hadley's brilliant new novel. It follows the story of Stella, from her childhood as the daughter of a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s into the mysterious shallows of her middle age. The story is f ...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
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
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