'For readers of Alice Munro, Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Patchett, Zadie Smith, Rose Tremain, Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Lily King.
Sunday Times bestseller Tessa Hadley explores the big consequences of small events in this new collection
Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Janey's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janey's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Teenager Cecilia wakes one morning on vacation with her parents in Florence and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes.
These stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality, and dreams.
Please note this copy is in near new condition with a protective cover over the dust jacket
ISBN: 9781787333680
Size: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Year: 2023