Free Love. First Printing. Flat Signed by the Author

Hadley, Tessa

ISBN 10: 1787333671 / ISBN 13: 9781787333673

Published by London. Jonathan Cape/Vintage, 2022

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London. Jonathan Cape/Vintage. 2022. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1 on the copyright page). Demy 8vo 8¾" x 5½" [22.2cm x 13.9cm] approx. 321 pp. Scarlet boards with bold silver titles to the spine. Flat signed by the author direct to the title page without dedication. The book is square and tight. No previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners and spine ends sharp The pages and closed page edges are clean. No remainder marks. The dust jacket is crisp and complete; unclipped at £16.99. The colours are bright, fresh and unfaded, corners and spine ends are sharp. Seductive novel about one woman's sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival Brodart sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Free Love. First Printing. Flat Signed by the Author
• Publisher: London. Jonathan Cape/Vintage
• Publication Date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1787333671
• ISBN 13: 9781787333673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Discover the seductive novel about one woman's sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London from the bestselling author of Late in the Day.

1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy.

But when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother.

With scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters' inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Free Love is an irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our lives.

'Tessa Hadley might be my new favourite writer. She just 'gets' people, their flaws, their ignoble impulses, the transcendent moments... she is wonderful.' Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel

About the Author

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, Free Love and three collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love and Bad Dreams. She won the 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.