Everything Will Be All Right
$34.67
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2005
Summary
Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband. Joyce watches the two sisters - her aunt’s unbending dedication to the life of the mind, her mother worn down by housework - and thinks that each of them is powerless in her own way.
For Joyce, art school provides an escape route, and there she falls in love with one of her teachers. When she marries and has children, she is determined to man…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099462002 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099462001 |
| Author: | Tessa Hadley |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2005 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 29mm |
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Genuinely exciting
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 AdichieBewitchingly compelling… Gloriously addictive, delectably enjoyable… the reader is snared and kept captive to the last… Exquisite * Guardian *Hadley’s fiction resembles that of Anne Tyler in aiming to illuminate ordinary life * Sunday Times *Genuinely exciting * New Statesman *Seductively written * Sunday Telegraph *Engrossing… This book is marvellous - a paean to the quiet splendour of life * Time Out *Witty and warm… An astute and accomplished work * Daily Mail *Fine-tuned, lyrical, exact * Independent *This fine, thoughtful novel underlines Tessa Hadley’s skill at tackling and reclaiming the saga * Times Literary Supplement *
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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