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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
This beautifully evoked fourth novel is a further example of her talents -- Rachel Hore * Literary Review *
Darkly elegant...Hadley writes with grace and intensity, moving from careful, beautiful delineation of character and place...to moments of haunting power. She is brilliant, too, at offering us different perspectives * Financial Times *
Tessa Hadley is an understated writer whose concentration on the details of everyday life belies a breathtaking acuity and articulateness... She once again visualizes the monochrome mundanity of ordinary existence in glorious Technicolor... Hadley captures shades of almost imperceptible grey that the reader only recognizes after reading... Hadley shows, with dizzying aplomb, that the distinction between "literary" fiction and the best domestic fiction is spurious. -- Leyla Sani * Independent *
