Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley
Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother and rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse and dreams of a less ordinary life. But these things come at a price and one that Stella despite all her cleverness doesnt realise until it is too late.
Few writers give me such consistent pleasure -- Zadie Smith
She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rareShe is one of the best fiction writers writing today -- Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
As discrete entities, Hadley’s short stories are intense, miniature novels in themselves; bound together in a novel, they become quietly brilliant, offering an incisive exploration into how life’s individuals episodes add up to a meaningful whole. -- Francesca Angelini * Sunday Times *
Hadley is a writer of exceptional intelligence and skill and, for all the apparent conventionality of her vision, hers is a subtly subversive talent. -- Edmund Gordon * Observer *
There is something reassuring yet deliciously unexpected about a Tessa Hadley novel. -- Helen Brown * Daily Telegraph *
She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rareShe is one of the best fiction writers writing today -- Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
As discrete entities, Hadley’s short stories are intense, miniature novels in themselves; bound together in a novel, they become quietly brilliant, offering an incisive exploration into how life’s individuals episodes add up to a meaningful whole. -- Francesca Angelini * Sunday Times *
Hadley is a writer of exceptional intelligence and skill and, for all the apparent conventionality of her vision, hers is a subtly subversive talent. -- Edmund Gordon * Observer *
There is something reassuring yet deliciously unexpected about a Tessa Hadley novel. -- Helen Brown * Daily Telegraph *
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 and Free Love, and four collections of stories: Sunstroke, Married Love, Bad Dreams and After the Funeral. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016 and she has twice been awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, for 2018 and for 2024. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099570523 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099570521 |
| Title | Clever Girl |
| Author | Tessa Hadley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Wales Book of the Year 2014 (UK) |
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