短篇小说|Tessa Hadley Cecilia awakened from her childhood while she was on holiday in Italy, the summer she turned fifteen. It was not a sexual awakening, or not exactly—rather, an intellectual or imaginative one. Until that summer, the odd child she was had seemed to fit in perfectly wit...
Tessa Hadley is the author of five highly praised novels:Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for theGuardianFirst Book Award;Everything Will Be All Right;The Master Bedroom;The London Train, which was aNew York TimesNotable Book; andClever Girl. She is also the author of two short ...
Tessa Hadley is the author of four highly praised novels:Accidents in the Home, which was long-listed for theGuardianFirst Book Award;Everything Will Be All Right;The Master Bedroom;The London Train, which was aNew York TimesNotable Book; and a previous collection of stories, Sunstroke, also ...
The children’s bedroom, the bathroom, papered in big blue roses, and their parents’ room were all at the front of the massive Victorian house, which was four stories tall, including this basement flat; sometimes the child was aware of the other flats above theirs, full of the furniture ...
Podcast: The Writer’s Voice Listen to Tessa Hadley read “The Maths Tutor.” Lorraine remembered when Calum was a baby, so adorably eager and tender. Now he said “arks” instead of “ask,” and “mouf,” in the school patois, which was meant to annoy her and shut her out, though...