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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.
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 * i * 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 *
