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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 03/01/2013
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ISBN: 9780099570189
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 195g
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RRP: £9.99
The new collection of short stories from award-winning author 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.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 03/01/2013
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ISBN: 9780099570189
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 195g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"Few writers give me such consistent pleasure"
Zadie Smith
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers"
Vogue
