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Accidents in the Home
Tessa Hadley
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Description for Accidents in the Home
Paperback. 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. The encounter needn't have meant anything - it could just have been funny, or embarrassing - but it seems to have the power to shake up everything in Clare's life. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188.
'A novel as tight as a snare-drum and as bright as the moon' Financial Times
Discover the debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day and Free Love, Tessa Hadley.
Clare and Helly have been friends since school. Now, Clare is married with three small children, she bakes her own bread and buys her clothes from the charity shop. Meanwhile, Helly is an actress and has her golden curves pasted up on billboards ten foot high. Each of them seems to want what the other has.
An improbable coincidence brings Clare back ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099428589
SKU
V9780099428589
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-42
About Tessa Hadley
Tessa 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Accidents in the Home
Few 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 Surprising and rewarding... Hadley has pulled off an important and tricky task... Not many books remind you so directly and forcefully that reading is ... Read more
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 Surprising and rewarding... Hadley has pulled off an important and tricky task... Not many books remind you so directly and forcefully that reading is ... Read more