The Master Bedroom

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
A luxuriant writer… the richness of her descriptions need only be matched by the imagination of the reader * Washington Times *
Closely observed, beautifully written, generous, funny and true, Hadley’s fiction is the real thing * Sunday Times *
A sharp and a sexy read * Observer *
Bewitching …A prose stylist of quite outstanding talent with a gift for psychological acuity and an ability to encapsulate the human condition…As a writer, she is the real thing, utterly authentic in motive and achievement * Guardian *
A lovely, subtly teasing writer…Hadley’s observations of the ebb and flow of female desire and frustration are reminiscent of Virginia Woolf, but she taps sensual undercurrents where Woolf wouldn’t have dipped her toe * New York Times *

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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