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After the Funeral

Tessa Hadley

From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships

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Free Love

Tessa Hadley

From Tessa Hadley, bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past, comes a compulsive new novel about one woman’s sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London

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The Past: ‘Poetic, tender and full of wry humour. A delight.’ - Sunday Mirror

Tessa Hadley

Rivalry, unruly desire and ugly secrets poison a family holiday in this gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day. ‘Few writers give me such…

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Everything Will Be Alright

Tessa Hadley

First published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company –Title page verso.

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Accidents in the Home

Tessa Hadley

An improbable coincidence brings Clare back into contact with someone she once had sex with at a teenage party; complicatedly, he is now going out with her best friend, Helly…

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Free Love: ‘So real and humane and utterly transporting’ - Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss

Tessa Hadley

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…

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The Master Bedroom

Tessa Hadley

Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate’s forty-three and has given up her university career in London to…

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

Tessa Hadley

Her fiance 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…

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Clever Girl

Tessa Hadley

Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother and rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse and dreams…

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Late in the Day

Tessa Hadley

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel.

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After the Funeral and Other Stories

Tessa Hadley

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships-"a revelation for aficionados of the form, as…

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Everything Will be All Right

Tessa Hadley

Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband. Joyce watches the two sisters - her…

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The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen: Selected and Introduced by Tessa Hadley

Elizabeth Bowen

A beautiful volume of Elizabeth Bowen’s best stories, selected by Tessa Hadley

‘Bowen’s stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked…

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Frost In May

Antonia White

Frost in May is the novel which launched the Virago Modern Classics list. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern…

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The London Train

Tessa Hadley

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two cities, two stories bound by the London train. Paul sets…

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After the Funeral and Other Stories

Tessa Hadley

"A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of these twelve stories, small…

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Late in the Day

Tessa Hadley

P.S. insights, interviews & more… –Page 4 of cover.

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Free Love

Tessa Hadley

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…

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Sunstroke and Other Stories

Tessa Hadley

A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer; a boy becomes aware of the woman, who is…

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Married Love: And Other Stories

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2012.

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Accidents in the Home

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Twenty-nine-year-old suburban mother of three, Clare Menges’ comfortable world is disrupted when her best friend’s lover appears in her life. Hadley constructs a beautifully fashioned and intimate portrait of family…

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Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise…

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Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise…

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The London Train

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Two lives, stretched between two cities, converge in a chance meeting that has immediate and far-reaching consequences, in this compelling, sophisticated work from an acclaimed New Yorker writer.

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The Past

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

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

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Clever Girl

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Includes P.S., insights, interviews & more.

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Bad Dreams and Other Stories

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Tessa Hadley has proved herself to be a champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories, it’s the ordinary things that turn out to…

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Bad Dreams and Other Stories

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Tessa Hadley has proved herself to be a champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories, it’s the ordinary things that turn out to…

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Bad Dreams and Other Stories Lib/E

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Tessa Hadley has proved herself to be a champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories, it’s the ordinary things that turn out to…

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Bad Dreams and Other Stories

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

Tessa Hadley has proved herself to be a champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories, it’s the ordinary things that turn out to…

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The Past Lib/E

Tessa Hadley

The supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to…

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Free Love

Tessa Hadley

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 Mantel

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Free Love

Tessa Hadley

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 Mantel

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Free Love

Tessa Hadley

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 Mantel

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The Master Bedroom

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University),Hadley

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…

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Sunstroke and Other Stories

Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University)

A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer; a boy becomes aware of the woman, who is…

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Frost In May

Antonia White

*‘Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life’ Hermione Lee, Observer

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Openings

Lucy Caldwell

A powerful new collection from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Multitudes and Intimacies - a striking exploration of motherhood and marriage.

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Hurricanes in Perfect Power

Various

A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.

'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power…

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