Few writers give me such consistent pleasure

- Zadie Smith,

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,

As discrete entities, Hadley’s short stories are intense, miniature novels in themselves; bound together in a novel, they become quietly brilliant, offering an incisive exploration into how life’s individuals episodes add up to a meaningful whole.

- Francesca Angelini, Sunday Times

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Hadley is a writer of exceptional intelligence and skill and, for all the apparent conventionality of her vision, hers is a subtly subversive talent.

- Edmund Gordon, Observer

There is something reassuring yet deliciously unexpected about a Tessa Hadley novel.

- Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph

The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an ordinary life made extraordinary by the gifts of Tessa Hadley. Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother and rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse and dreams of a less ordinary life. When she meets Val, he seems to her to embody everything she longs for - glamour, ideas, excitement and the thrill of the unknown. But these things come at a price and one that Stella despite all her cleverness doesn't realise until it is too late.'Tessa Hadley writes like a dream' Daily Mail
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Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother and rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse and dreams of a less ordinary life. But these things come at a price and one that Stella despite all her cleverness doesn’t realise until it is too late.
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Few writers give me such consistent pleasure
One woman's life, from childhood to middle age, by Britain's most acute, perceptive novelist of ordinary lives

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099570523
Publisert
2014-03-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
248 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
131 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter

Biographical note

Tessa Hadley is the author of eight 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, The Past, Late in the Day, Free Love and three collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love and Bad Dreams. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.