Few writers give me such consistent pleasure
- Zadie Smith, author White Teeth,
Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book
- Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall,
She is one of the best fiction writers writing today
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Purple Hibiscus,
The writer we didn’t know we were waiting for, until she arrived
- Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren,
Something small but perfectly formed will always do well as Christmas draws near – ask Claire Keegan – and Tessa Hadley’s novella The Party looks just the ticket.
- Anthony Cummins, Observer
[An] exquisite work from one of our finest writers
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The Party is a coming-of-age story humming with all the tightly packed resonances of a poem… Tessa Hadley is one of our finest chroniclers, and this novella is a glimmering, sensuous addition to her supremely elegant oeuvre
Financial Times
The novelist and short story writer Tessa Hadley is alternately beloved and teased for her focus on British middle-class life. But she does it so well… Hadley’s power is in the details
Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*
There is no-one who writes better about middle-class life in 20th- and 21st-century Britain than Tessa Hadley
Evening Standard
Though the book is short…Hadley’s touch [is] delicate as ever
Guardian