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After the Funeral Tessa Hadley

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After the Funeral By Tessa Hadley

After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley

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After the Funeral Summary

After the Funeral: 'My new favourite writer' Marian Keyes by Tessa Hadley

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life, from the incomparable Tessa Hadley

'One of the best fiction writers writing today'
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, author of AMERICANAH
'Any publication of hers is a cause for celebration'
FINANCIAL TIMES
'My inspiration, my literary thrill, and my solace'
LILY KING, author of WRITERS & LOVERS

In each of the twelve stories in After the Funeral, small events have huge consequences. 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.

After the Funeral Reviews

Hadley has mastered the art of illuminating those brief, commonplace domestic moments which pass without fanfare but create ripples which never subside... Irresistible fiction * Big Issue, *Summer Reads of 2023* *
Any publication of hers, whether of short or long fiction, is cause for celebration for the pure pleasure of the prose * Financial Times *
Tessa Hadley is my favourite author -- Kate Atkinson, author of Shrines of Gaiety
I love Tessa Hadley's subtle, humane writing; no one understands better our inner lives, and the shifts of power and chance and desire which shape us -- Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist
Tessa Hadley might be my new favourite writer. She just gets people, their flaws, their ignoble impulses, the transcendent moments -- Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups
Tessa Hadley is my inspiration, my literary thrill, and my solace all at once. She is pure magic and After the Funeral is a triumph -- Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers
Few writers since Elizabeth Bowen seem as able to slip so effortlessly between forms, and few have such precision and sheer command - on a tonal and emotional level, at the level of each sentence, and of the short story form. Tessa Hadley's stories are written with a captivating ease. As one of her own characters says of Madame Bovary, there is a ferocious pure aim to Hadley's words that goes right to the heart - of each story, and of this reader. She is truly a great writer and this is a stunning collection -- Lucy Caldwell, author of Intimacies
She is one of the best fiction writers writing today -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah
What a peerless writer Tessa Hadley is! I so enjoyed these beguiling, subtle stories, each one suggesting a world that lives long after one's closed the book -- Deborah Moggach, author of These Foolish Things
Hadley takes on her subjects with such grace and insight, that reading her work makes you want to take notes on human behaviour. After the Funeral is magnetic, subtle and full of tensile strength -- Nikita Lalwani, author of You People
Few writers give me such consistent pleasure -- Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth
Beautifully done... the strongest stories resonate, offering glimpses of the hidden selves we all conceal * Sunday Times *
A reminder of just how sublime an experience reading a Tessa Hadley book is * i *
Hadley... is fantastically inventive... [a] magnificent collection * Daily Telegraph *

About Tessa Hadley

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.

Additional information

GOR013198003
9781787333680
178733368X
After the Funeral: 'My new favourite writer' Marian Keyes by Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
20230713
240
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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