Sunstroke and Other Stories

Few writers give me such consistent pleasure – Zadie Smith
She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today – Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Truly absorbing… a masterful yet understated read… More please * Sunday Express *
Brilliant… Hadley’s style is as discreet as good tailoring * Independent *
The stories sparkle…Hadley is fascinating for the way she admits a fantasy or a missed chance can be more significant than the actual events that shape a life * Metro *
Tessa Hadley excels in glimpses: those small, burning memories that we never lose and which haunt as well as remind… A wonderful collection – Brian Henigan * Herald *
A wholly satisfying collection of stories…Distinguished by a dry humour and prose that often surprises but is never merely showy, Sunstroke catches life on the wing and pins it, fiercely struggling to the page – Peter Parker * Sunday Times *
A brooding, real-life collection bruised by knowledge and sustained by familiar discomfort – Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
Really very sexy… she is the writer we didn’t know we were waiting for, until she arrived – Anne Enright * Guardian *
Hadley is a talented writer * Scotland on Sunday *

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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