Free Love

So real and humane and utterly transporting; fresh and yet, with the feeling of a beloved classic. – Meg Mason, author of SORROW AND BLISSI utterly LOVED this book!!!!! Tessa Hadley might be my new favourite writer… she is wonderful. – Marian KeyesA beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate. – Hilary MantelTessa Hadley is my favourite author. – Kate AtkinsonBeautifully structured and brilliantly paced. It displays Tessa Hadley’s extraordinary skill at making both surface life and deep interiors come fully alive. – Colm TóibínI was utterly transported. Tessa Hadley is a true writer and this is such an enthralling novel, just so properly attentive to life. – Sunjeev SahotaTessa Hadley knows everything there is to know about the intricate, complex, contradictory workings of the human mind and heart. Her power to embed that understanding in unfailingly intelligent prose is unmatched in contemporary fiction. – Neel MukherjeeArtful, profound and subtle … what a great writer she is. – Geoff DyerIn keen, lush prose, Hadley conveys the many ways her characters delude themselves amid fraught relationships between parents and children as well as between lovers. The result is sumptuous and surprising. * Publishers Weekly *A sumptuous stylist, Hadley is a writer for whom language trumps all else. Any publication of hers, whether of short or long fiction, is cause for celebration for the pure pleasure of the prose. – Mia Levitin * Financial Times *

Tessa Hadley is the author of seven 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 three collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love and Bad Dreams. She won a 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.

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