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Books reviewed in Planet: The Welsh InternationalistThe London Train (2011)
by Tessa Hadley
"The London Train" is a novel in two parts, separate but wound together around a single moment, examining in vivid detail two lives stretched between two cities. Paul lives in the Welsh countryside with his wife Elise, and their two young children. The day after his mother dies he learns that his... (learn more about this book)
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Everything Will Be All Right
by Tessa Hadley
Three generations of woman, each determined in her own way to successfully combine relationships, children and domesticity with a sense of freedom, thereby avoiding what each sees as the traps of the previous generation. (learn more about this book)
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Accidents in the Home: A Novel
by Tessa Hadley
Clare Menges is the twenty-nine-year-old suburban mother of three, but her comfortable world is disrupted when her best friend’s lover appears in her life. Anyway Clare’s perfect life was never what it seemed; the world of her family is a complicated and fraught web of marriages and divorces,... (learn more about this book)
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Sunstroke and Other Stories
by Tessa Hadley
A Picador Paperback Original Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an... (learn more about this book)
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The Master Bedroom: A Novel
by Tessa Hadley
A single woman at loose ends becomes the object of two men’s affections—a father and his teenage son—in this sly, richly drawn novel After more than twenty years in London, Kate Flynn has returned to her family home in Wales to care for her aging mother. Having cast off her academic career,... (learn more about this book)
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Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure
by Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had visualized sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave... (learn more about this book)
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Married Love: And Other Stories
by Tessa Hadley
Married Love is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today’s most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity; her powerful, precise, and emotionally dense prose; her... (learn more about this book)
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