Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/01/2013
ISBN: 9780099570189
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 195g
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.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/01/2013
ISBN: 9780099570189
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 195g
RRP: £9.99
Few writers give me such consistent pleasure
She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today
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
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
One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers