'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' Metro
A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley.
Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiancé is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior.It is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure.
'The most perceptive chronicler since George Eliot of avid, unworldly young women' Guardian
| ISBN: | 9780099570189 |
| Publication date: | 3rd January 2013 |
| Author: | Tessa Hadley |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Shorter Reads |
'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots' Metro
A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley.
Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiancé is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior.It is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure.
'The most perceptive chronicler since George Eliot of avid, unworldly young women' Guardian
Married Love features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Shorter Reads
Married Love is available in Paperback
Married Love was written by Tessa Hadley and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Married Love has 232 pages
£8.99