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Book SynopsisTessa Hadley is the author of eight highly praised novels,
Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the
Guardian First Book Award,
Everything Will Be All Right,
The Master Bedroom,
The London Train, Clever Girl,
The Past,
Late in the Day, Free Love and three collections of stories,
Sunstroke,
Married Love and
Bad Dreams. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016,
The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and
Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in the
New Yorker.
Trade ReviewFew writers give me such consistent pleasure -- Zadie Smith
She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today -- Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
The stories collected in
Married Love tend to announced themselves with a crash ... before resolving into quieter reflections, like musical overtures in which strings follow brass. Whether it is in examining the mellowing of a marriage in the title piece, or recounting the progress of a one night stand ("In the Cave"), Hadley writes of ordinary lives with a gracefulness unequalled among her peers * Independent on Sunday *
Occasionally – very occasionally – a book feels like a gift, something unexpected, exhilarating, life-enhancing. Tessa Hadley’s second collection of short stories is such a book * The Times *
One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers * Vogue *
