Writers pick the classic and contemporary novels you must read from each country. By Rose Courteau In Tessa Hadley’s novel “Late in the Day,” the bonds of love and loyalty are frayed when a widow and ...

Morsomt, bevægende, genkendeligt og bittersødt. Britiske Tessa Hadley demonstrerer endnu en gang, hvilken eminent ...

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We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. "After the Funeral and Other Stories" (Knopf), a collection of stories by the award-winning Tessa Hadley, catches family ...

AFTER THE FUNERAL AND OTHER STORIES. By Tessa Hadley. Knopf. 240 pages. $28. British writer Tessa Hadley specializes in characters who suffer loss without impoverishment. Her stories chart a ...

At være i selskab med Tessa Hadley og hendes ni noveller er lige så skønt som at være i sommerhus med sin bedste og skarpeste ...

The party was in full swing. Evelyn could hear the sexy blare of the trad jazz almost as soon as she got off the bus at St. Mary Redcliffe and began walking over to the Steam Packet, the pub that ...

We explore the medium of short stories through the prism of two new collections by two UK writers. Tessa Hadley’s new book, “After the Funeral”, is characteristically full of sharp observations about ...

Set in the 1960s in the midst of the sexual revolution, Tessa Hadley’s latest novel "Free Love" centers on Phyllis, a 40-year-old housewife, who finds herself kissing a young man at a party. And ...

If, at the outset, Tessa Hadley’s characters in her new collection After the Funeral and Other Stories seem — despite their many muted traumas — to be doing more or less okay, each story ultimately ...