Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley - ISBN: 9780099428589
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One encounter unravels a marriage and family secrets emerge.

Accidents in the Home

The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    14 March 2003

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Summary

From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley’s first novel now rejacketed for a whole new audience.

An improbable coincidence brings Clare back into contact with someone she once had sex with at a teenage party. Complicatedly, he is now going out with her best friend, Helly. The encounter needn’t have meant anything – it could just have been funny, or embarrassing – but it seems to have the power to shake up everything in Clare’s life.

Clare is married with three small c…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099428589
ISBN-10:009942858X
Author:Tessa Hadley
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:14 March 2003
Weight:184g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

Few writers give me such consistent pleasure – Zadie SmithShe has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today – Chimamanda Ngozie AdichieSurprising and rewarding… Hadley has pulled off an important and tricky task… Not many books remind you so directly and forcefully that reading is about creating new ways of seeing the world * New York Times *Charts with intelligence, humour and unflinching perception the way we mostly fail to realise how we have to live * Times Literary Supplement *In clear prose that gorgeously fixes nuances so evanescent as to be rare, the novel unfolds an artful, inventive spectrum of opportunity and love - Tessa Hadley is that rare writer who has the convictions of her ambitions * Observer *

About The Author

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 and Free Love, and four collections of stories: Sunstroke, Married Love, Bad Dreams and After the Funeral. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016 and she has twice been awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, for 2018 and for 2024. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.

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