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A new novel from the author of "The London Train", this will appeal to fans of Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. It follows three sisters and brother who reunite in their grandparents' old house, as the past comes to the fore. Now in paperback.

“An exquisite writer, a writer’s writer, with a fine eye for detail and a way of crafting sentences that make you stop and inhale . . .  Hadley should be a bestseller rather than literary fiction’s best kept secret.”—The Times (London)Three sisters and a brother, complete with children, a new wife, and an ex-boyfriend’s son, descend on their grandparents’ dilapidated old home in the Somerset countryside for a final summer holiday, where simmer...

The latest novel from the acclaimed author, portraying a man and woman whose lives collide on the Cardiff to London train. 'This beautifully evoked fourth novel is a further example of her talents' Rachel Hore, "Literary Review

An examination of James's representation of the privileges and pains of turn-of-the-century society.

The first collection of short stories from the author of "Accidents In The Home" and "Everything Will Be All Right", examining the extraordinary and unexpected situations that can arise from everyday life.

Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. Adapting to a new way of life, the connections Kate forges in her new home are to have painful consequences, as the past begins to cast its long shadow over the present...

An improbable coincidence brings Clare back into contact with someone she once had sex with at a teenage party, Clare is married with three small children, she bakes her own bread and buys her clothes from the charity shop. Clare's story is intertwined with other stories of her extended family.

A new novel from the author of "The London Train", this will appeal to fans of Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. It follows three sisters and brother who reunite in their grandparents' old house, as the past comes to the fore. 'Hadley is a writer of exceptional intelligence and skill' Edmund Gordon, "Observer

A Picador Paperback Original Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend, a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close. In Tessa Hadley'...

Siblings visit their old home before it's sold and a mix of emotions surface

Siblings visit their old home before it's sold and a mix of emotions surface

A powerful literary debut chronicling a year in the life of one thoroughly modern familyClare Verey, a twenty-nine-year-old mother of three, bakes her own bread and grinds her own spices. She has a comfortable home in the suburbs and a devoted husband. Why is it, then, that when her best friend's lover appears in her life he has the power to invert her world? Why is the desire for more never satisfied?So begins Accidents in the Home, a novel t...

An examination of James's representation of the privileges and pains of turn-of-the-century society.

Hadleys intricate, graceful novel explores the tangled web of connections between parents and children, revealing how each generation replays the stories of the one that came before, in new and sometimes startling patterns.

When Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Vera and her sister Lil aren't at all alike. Vera, a teacher, has unquestioning belief in the powers of education and reason, Lil puts her faith in seances. Joyce is determined to be different: she falls in love with art (and her art teacher). Spanning five decades of extraordinary change in women's lives, "Everything Will Be All Right "exp...

Unsettled by the recent death of his mother, Paul sets out in search of Pia, his daughter from his first marriage, who has disappeared into the labyrinth of London. Discovering her pregnant and living illegally in a run-down council flat with a pair of Polish siblings, Paul is entranced by Pia’s excitement at living on the edge. Abandoning his second wife and their children in Wales, he joins her to begin a new life in the heart of London. Cor...