Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley is the author of five 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, which was a New York Times Notable Book; and Clever Girl. She is also the author of two short story collections, Sunstroke and Married Love, which were New York Times Notable Books as well. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker. She lives in London.
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In Conversation | The Online Edition
Sarah Hall and Tessa Hadley In Conversation
Sarah Hall & Tessa Hadley
‘Literature is that odd paradox: an artifice that somehow truthfully engages the reader, the mind, the emotions, the self, in essential communion.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Servitude
Tessa Hadley
‘We had each needed the other for something, which wasn’t kindness or love. We’d both had dry husks for our hearts, that day.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
In the Country
Tessa Hadley
‘She wondered if she would have the audacity, when the time came, to let herself go like that.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Matrilineal
Tessa Hadley
‘One night forty years ago Helen Cerruti left her husband.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Buckets of Blood
Tessa Hadley
‘I’m miscarrying a pregnancy, she said, when the spasm seemed to have passed.—It’s a fine mess.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Enemy
Tessa Hadley
‘She relished the thought of his rather ravaged fifty-five-year-old and oh-so-male head against her broderie anglaise pillowcases.‘