Book by Hadley Tessa
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"A British writer whose work probes the dangers and joys of family life, Tessa Hadley writes like a dream, even if some of her stories can haunt you like a nightmare....Hadley's measured, perfectly controlled prose masterfully chronicles her characters' turmoil; these stories are gemlike and unforgettable."--Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
"[Hadley's stories] are often like movie clips of lives in transit, their small shifts of focus yielding up flashes of psychological insight. . . . Hadley excels at the domestic context, at pinpointing the particular quiddity on which an individual character turns; at marking the tiny swings of allegiance in human relationships."--Rachel Hore, The Independent
"Domestic relationships are the stuff of these delightfully understated, tightly sprung stories."--Fanny Blake, Woman and Home
"A subtly incisive vision and the ability to conjure full fictional scenarios in limited spaces characterize the new collection by a noted British writer....Shrewd, insightful, unpredictable, Hadley's stories successfully plumb the complicated daily deeps."--Kirkus
"Her talent is to take these small details of everyday life and build them into stirring narratives....Hadley gives space to the smallest emotional currents, allowing them to expand."--Susannah Meadows, New York Times
"What Hadley's stories share with Munro's is an extraordinary ability to capture whole worlds - the hopes, disappointments, complexity and arc of characters' lives - in concise prose that never feels rushed."--Heller McAlpin, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"Twisting her pen with words so skilled and a sensitivity so finely honed it takes mere fragments to convey the lifetime of a character to the reader, Hadley brings us twelve of the finest short stories in print today."--Andrea Huehnerhoff, Sacramento Book Review
"Filled with exquisitely calibrated gradations and expressions of class, conducted with symphonic intensity and complexity....[An] understatedly beautiful collection....Extraordinarily well-made."--Stacey D'Erasmo, New York Times Book Review
"Hadley's power...is best felt as she teases out the often dangerous crackles in the air and cracks in the heart. There's a louche tautness to her prose..."--Helen Davies, Sunday Times (London)
"One of the most interesting writer around....This collection shows a writer quietly growing in style, perception and grace. She conveys to the reader that rare ability to see completely into someone else's head."--Philip Womack, The Spectator
This new collection of short fiction from the acclaimed novelist delves into domestic dramas, generational sagas, tragic love affairs and life-altering realizations, from an 18-year-old girl who insists on marrying her music professor to the wife of a film producer who gets the chance to lead a much different life after her husband's death. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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