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Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book. She writes with authority, and with delicacy: she explores nuance, but speaks plainly, she is one of those writers a reader trusts.”—Hilary MantelFrom Tessa Hadley, the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past—"one of the greatest stylists alive” (Washington Post)—an enthralling novel that skillfully portrays the dissolution of a family in 1960s England.1967. While London comes alive wit...

Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family's upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them. With scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters' inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings.

Seit dreißig Jahren sind sie befreundet, die stille Malerin Christine, ihr Mann Alex, der sich zum Dichter berufen fu¿hlte und nun als Lehrer arbeitet, der erfolgreiche Kunstha¿ndler Zachary und seine flamboyante Frau Lydia. Die vier fu¿hren in London ein gutbu¿rgerliches Leben, parlieren u¿ber Kunst und Literatur, bekommen Kinder und fahren gemeinsam in die Ferien. Alles ist gut. Dann stirbt Zachary, vollkommen unerwartet. Lydia zieht zu Chri...

Vor drei Jahren sind sie einander begegnet, hatten eine Affa¿re, aber ihre Wege haben sich wieder getrennt. Paul, der verheiratete Schriftsteller aus Wales, fa¿hrt nach London zu seiner Tochter Pia, die irgendwo in der englischen Hauptstadt verschwunden ist. Er will sie retten, glaubt er, und merkt nicht, dass sein eigenes Leben aus den Fugen geraten ist. Cora fa¿hrt in die Gegenrichtung, nach Cardiff, zum Haus, das sie von ihren Eltern geerbt...

Seit 30 Jahren sind sie befreundet, die stille Malerin Christine, ihr Mann Alex, der sich zum Dichter berufen fühlte und nun als Lehrer arbeitet, der erfolgreiche Kunsthändler Zachary und seine flamboyante Frau Lydia. Die vier führen in London ein gutbürgerliches Leben, parlieren über Kunst und Literatur, bekommen Kinder und fahren gemeinsam in die Ferien. Alles ist gut. Dann stirbt Zachary, vollkommen unerwartet. Lydia zieht zu Christine und ...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAlex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties. From student house-shares and grubby pubs to proper homes and grown-up careers, the two couples' lives have been interlinked for decades. Then one evening, Alex and Christine receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of their loss bringing them closer, the thr...

Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer’s evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead.In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored, all agree that Zach, with his generous, grounded spirit, was the irreplaceable one they c...

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From the prize-winning author of "The Past" and "The London Train", comes a new collection of stories. 'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie Smith

Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby, a child, awake in the night, explores the familiar rooms of her home, made strange by the darkness, a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and carelessly: each of these stories illuminates crucial moments of transition often imperceptible to the protagonists.A girl accepts a lift in...

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Tessa Hadley is the author of six 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 and The Past, and three collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love and Bad Dreams. The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She lives in London and is Professor of C...

Clever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an Englishwoman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley's involving and moving novel follows Stella from childhood, growing up with her single mother in a Bristol bedsit, into the murky waters of middle age. It is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama—violent deaths, failed affairs, brok...

Married Love is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today’s most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity, her powerful, precise, and emotionally dense prose, her unflinching examinations of family relationships. Here are stories that range widely across generations and classes, exploring the private and public lives o...