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Married Love: ´One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers´ Vogue
Tessa Hadley
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Paperback. Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiance is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 178.
'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' Metro
A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley.
Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiancé 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 tested but holding, and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure.
'The most perceptive chronicler since George Eliot of avid, unworldly young women' Guardian
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099570189
SKU
V9780099570189
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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 Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.
Reviews for Married Love: ´One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers´ Vogue
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 The stories collected in Married Love tend to announced themselves with a crash ... before resolving into quieter reflections, like musical overtures in which strings follow brass. Whether it is in examining the mellowing of a marriage in the title piece, or recounting the progress of a one night stand ("In the Cave"), Hadley writes of ordinary lives with a gracefulness unequalled among her peers
Independent on Sunday
Occasionally – very occasionally – a book feels like a gift, something unexpected, exhilarating, life-enhancing. Tessa Hadley’s second collection of short stories is such a book
The Times
One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers
Vogue
The most perceptive chronicler since George Eliot of avid, unworldly young women
Guardian
Hadley is a writer of exceptional intelligence and skill Only Alice Munro and Colm Toibin, among all the working short story writers I’m aware of, are so adept at portraying whole lives in a few thousand words. With Married Love, Hadley joins their company as one of the most clear-sighted chroniclers of contemporary emotional journeys
Observer
Tessa Hadley writes like a dream, the prose precise, but funny, too
Daily Mail
These stories are shored up with sentences and paragraphs that demand immediate re-reading for their cleverness and warmth…This party is well worth attending
Independent
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
Spectator
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 The stories collected in Married Love tend to announced themselves with a crash ... before resolving into quieter reflections, like musical overtures in which strings follow brass. Whether it is in examining the mellowing of a marriage in the title piece, or recounting the progress of a one night stand ("In the Cave"), Hadley writes of ordinary lives with a gracefulness unequalled among her peers
Independent on Sunday
Occasionally – very occasionally – a book feels like a gift, something unexpected, exhilarating, life-enhancing. Tessa Hadley’s second collection of short stories is such a book
The Times
One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers
Vogue
The most perceptive chronicler since George Eliot of avid, unworldly young women
Guardian
Hadley is a writer of exceptional intelligence and skill Only Alice Munro and Colm Toibin, among all the working short story writers I’m aware of, are so adept at portraying whole lives in a few thousand words. With Married Love, Hadley joins their company as one of the most clear-sighted chroniclers of contemporary emotional journeys
Observer
Tessa Hadley writes like a dream, the prose precise, but funny, too
Daily Mail
These stories are shored up with sentences and paragraphs that demand immediate re-reading for their cleverness and warmth…This party is well worth attending
Independent
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
Spectator