Married Love [electronic resource] : 'One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers' Vogue
Hadley, Tessa2012
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'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
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Hadley, Tessa, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2012
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
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Tessa Hadley is the author of six 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 and The Past, and three collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love and Bad Dreams. The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She lives in London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker and other magazines.
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9781446496435
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English
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2791593
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