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'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' Metro

A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley.

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 fiancé is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior.It is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure.

'The most perceptive chronicler since George Eliot of avid, unworldly young women' Guardian

Married Love: 'One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers' Vogue

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'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' MetroA beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 03/01/2013
    ISBN13: 9780099570189, 978-0099570189
    ISBN10: 0099570181

    Number of Pages: 240

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' Metro

    A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley.

    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 fiancé is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior.It is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure.

    'The most perceptive chronicler since George Eliot of avid, unworldly young women' Guardian

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