The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley

The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION

Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. When Kate meets David Roberts, a friend from the old days, she begins to obsess about him: she knows it's because she's bored and hasn't got anything else to do, but she can't stop.

Adapting to a new way of life, the connections Kate forges in her new home are to have painful consequences, as the past begins to cast its long shadow over the present...

'Bewitching... A prose stylist of quite outstanding talent with a gift for psychological acuity and an ability to encapsulate the human condition' Guardian

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
A luxuriant writer... the richness of her descriptions need only be matched by the imagination of the reader * Washington Times *
Closely observed, beautifully written, generous, funny and true, Hadley's fiction is the real thing * Sunday Times *
A sharp and a sexy read * Observer *

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	9780099499268
ISBN 10	0099499266
Title	The Master Bedroom
Author	Tessa Hadley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2008-09-04
Number of pages	320
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