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Hadley, Tessa Sunstroke and Other Stories ISBN 13: 9780224078214

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Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. A daughter remembers running away from home with her mother; two sisters from a family of nine vow together to grow up free from dreary women's problems.

Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.

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'Hadley never fails to surprise...her surprises are understated'.
-- The New York Times

'a wonderful collection' -- Herald

'absorbing and slyly revelatory' -- Daily Mail

'wonderfully elegant but rather unsettling' ***** -- Time Out

Absorbing finesse...The stories sparkle -- Metro

She writes with an elegant assurance -- Independent

The stories are truly absorbing...masterful yet understated -- Sunday Express

Wholly satisfying collection of stories -- Sunday Times

`a brooding, real-life collection'
-- Irish Times

`she writes sentences of which I will never tire'
-- Anne Enright, The Guardian
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After just two novels, Accidents in the Home and Everything Will Be All Right, Tessa Hadley has established herself as one of the most perceptive and entertaining writers in Britain, ‘a rare and startling gem’ whose writing is ‘fantastically subtle, absorbing and insightful’ (Guardian). Sunstroke is her first collection of stories.

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 0224078216
  • ISBN 13 9780224078214
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages160
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