The London Train
Tessa Hadley
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two cities, two stories bound by the London train.
Paul sets out in search of his eldest daughter Pia, who has gone missing somewhere in London. At first he thinks he wants to rescue her, but as time passes he is drawn deeper into the excitements of the capital, and a life lived in jeopardy, he forgets his own way home.
In the opposite direction, Cora is moving back to Cardiff, to the house she inherited from her parents. She is escaping her marriage and the disappointments of her London life. And then she receives a telephone call to say that her husband has disappeared...
'She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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 This beautifully evoked fourth novel is a further example of her talents
Rachel Hore
Literary Review
Darkly elegant...Hadley writes with grace and intensity, moving from careful, beautiful delineation of character and place...to moments of haunting power. She is brilliant, too, at offering us different perspectives
Financial Times
Tessa Hadley is an understated writer whose concentration on the details of everyday life belies a breathtaking acuity and articulateness... She once again visualizes the monochrome mundanity of ordinary existence in glorious Technicolor... Hadley captures shades of almost imperceptible grey that the reader only recognizes after reading... Hadley shows, with dizzying aplomb, that the distinction between "literary" fiction and the best domestic fiction is spurious.
Leyla Sani
Independent
Serene style and carefully constructed scenes
Alex Clark
Times Literary Review
Hadley's shrewd observation gains in distinction with every book she writes
Independent
Excellent
Philip Hensher
Observer, Books of the Year
Tessa Hadley is a writer whose antennae are almost indecently attuned to the interior static of private lives.
Emma Hagestadt
Independent
Hadley's writing is pin sharp
Rosemary Goring
Sunday Herald