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Twolives, stretched between two cities, converge in a chance meeting withimmediate and far-reaching consequences in this compelling, sophisticated talefrom acclaimed New Yorker writer Tessa Hadley, author of Accidents inthe Home and The Master Bedroom. As father struggles to reestablisha relationship with his estranged daughter in London, surrendering himself toan underground life of illegal squats and counterculture friendships,...

An improbable coincidence brings Clare back into contact with someone she once had sex with as a teenager; to complicate matters, he is now going out with her best friend, Helly. The encounter could have just been embarrassing, but it shakes up everything in Clare's life. Clare and Helly learned to smoke and shoplift together, and even read an old copy of The Female Eunuch together, squeezed side by side on Helly's bed. Now Clare is married with three small children, bakes her own bread and buys her clothes from the charity shop....

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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 affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close.

In Tessa Hadley's Sunstroke and Other Stories, everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old...

"A supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence," (New York Times Book Review), Tessa Hadley is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, including The London Train, a New York Times Notable Book. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, Hadley returns to the short story form in this brilliant collection, her first since the celebrated Sunstroke and Other Stories. Married Love showcases beautifully her formidable talent for writing domestic fiction that rises about the genre to become literary art.

Kates Temperament sei wie eine Naturgewalt, hat ihre Mutter Billie immer gesagt, großartig und unentrinnbar. Jetzt ist Kate dreiundvierzig, kinderlos und unverheiratet, und ihr Leben in London, ihr Job an der Uni, alles, was sie einmal erstrebenswert und aufregend fand, langweilt sie nur noch. Kurzerhand nimmt sie ein Jahr unbezahlten Urlaub, vermietet ihre Wohnung unter und zieht zurück nach Wales, um sich um Billie zu kümmern, die mit ihren dreiundachtzig Jahren immer vergesslicher wird. Hier, in der altehrwürdigen Villa Firenze am See, wo drei Generationen ihrer kultivierten...