Bücher von Tessa Hadley

Kates Temperament sei wie eine Naturgewalt, hat ihre Mutter Billie immer gesagt, großartig und unentrinnbar. Jetzt ist Kate dreiundvierzig, kinderlos und unverheiratet, und ihr Leben in London, ihr Job an der Uni, alles, was sie einmal erstrebenswert und aufregend fand, langweilt sie nur noch. Kurzerhand nimmt sie ein Jahr unbezahlten Urlaub, vermietet ihre Wohnung unter und zieht zurück nach Wales, um sich um Billie zu kümmern, die mit ihren dreiundachtzig Jahren immer vergesslicher wird. Hier, in der altehrwürdigen Villa Firenze am See, wo drei Generationen ihrer kultivierten jüdischen Familie zu Hause waren, ist die Zeit stehen geblieben. Aber in Kates Leben war Stillstand nie eine Option. Als sie ihren Jugendfreund David wiedertrifft, in dessen Ehe es gehörig kriselt, scheint eine Zerstreuung gefunden. Auch Davids siebzehnjähriger Sohn Jamie sucht Kates Nähe. Sie ist so ganz anders als die Mädchen in seiner Schule, und er verliebt sich in sie ... Die neuen Verbindungen, die Kate in der alten Heimat knüpft, stellen ihr Leben auf den Kopf - wenn auch ganz anders, als sie es sich vorgestellt hat.

Sunday Times bestseller Tessa Hadley explores the big consequences of small events in this new collection'You've either got it or you haven't. Hadley's got it'FINANCIAL TIMESHeloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Janey's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janey's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Teenager Cecilia wakes one morning on vacation with her parents in Florence and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes.These stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality, and dreams.

Für einen Sommer kehren sie zurück in das alte englische Landhaus ihrer Großeltern: Die vier Geschwister Harriet, Roland, Alice und Fran. Jetzt, in ihren Vierzigern und Fünfzigern, müssen sie entscheiden, ob sie das etwas in die Jahre gekommene Haus halten oder verkaufen sollen. Alice, gescheiterte Schauspielerin und unbelehrbare Romantikerin, bringt Kasim mit, den gerade erwachsenen Sohn ihres Ex- Partners, und Roland seine sechzehnjährige Tochter Molly, hübsch und unbedarft. Sie alle zieht das alte Anwesen in seinen Bann, längst überwunden geglaubte Spannungen lodern wieder auf, und neue erotische Verwicklungen bahnen sich an, das Schweigen wird gebrochen. Nach drei langen heißen Wochen geht auch dieser Sommer zu Ende - und es muss eine Entscheidung getroffen werden.

In Tessa Hadleys Erzählungen sind es die alltäglichen Begebenheiten, die sich als außergewöhnlich erweisen: Zwei junge Mütter verbringen den Sommer mit ihren Männern und Kindern in einem Cottage auf dem Land - und beginnen beide einen Flirt mit einem befreundeten Arzt. Ein Sohn gesteht der Mutter, seine Freundin zu betrügen. Eine Studentin verkündet ihren Eltern am Küchentisch, dass sie ihren Professor heiraten wird. Ein Teenager ist zugleich überfordert und geschmeichelt von den Avancen einer verheirateten Frau, die sich am Strand dicht an ihn drängt. Mit ihrem feinen Gespür für die Bruchstellen familiärer Geborgenheit kreist Tessa Hadley in acht Erzählungen um die großen Themen des Lebens, um Freundschaft und Liebe, Sexualität und Mutterschaft. Hadley fordert ihre Figuren, reißt sie heraus aus ihrem Alltag und öffnet ihnen Wege in ein neues Leben, von dem sie selbst noch nichts ahnen. Emotional, aber nicht sentimental, und mit wachem Blick für die entscheidenden Details gibt sie tiefe Einblicke in die Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen - und zeigt einmal mehr, dass sie eine der wichtigsten Schriftstellerinnen Großbritanniens ist.

Vor drei Jahren sind sie einander begegnet, hatten eine Affare, aber ihre Wege haben sich wieder getrennt. Paul, der verheiratete Schriftsteller aus Wales, fahrt nach London zu seiner Tochter Pia, die irgendwo in der englischen Hauptstadt verschwunden ist. Er will sie retten, glaubt er, und merkt nicht, dass sein eigenes Leben aus den Fugen geraten ist. Cora fahrt in die Gegenrichtung, nach Cardiff, zum Haus, das sie von ihren Eltern geerbt hat. Sie fluchtet aus ihrer unglucklichen Ehe, aus ihrem Londoner Leben, das sie als einzige Enttauschung empfindet. Dann bekommt sie einen Anruf: Ihr Mann sei verschwunden. Und alles, was gewiss schien, gerat ins Wanken. Wie durch ein Wunder haben sich Paul und Cora einst im selben Zug kennengelernt. Doch die lange Reise, die das Leben bedeutet, ist vor allem durch standige Verspatungen und verpasste Anschlusse bestimmt. Und auf dem Fahrschein scheint die Destination zu fehlen.

Sunday Times bestseller Tessa Hadley explores the big consequences of small events in this new collection'You've either got it or you haven't. Hadley's got it' FINANCIAL TIMESHeloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Janey's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janey's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Teenager Cecilia wakes one morning on holiday with her parents in Florence and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes.These stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality, and dreams.***A GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023******ONE OF THE BBC'S '25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023'***

In this brilliant collection, Tessa Hadley showcases beautifully her formidable talent for writing domestic fiction that rises about the genre to become literary art.?Filled with exquisitely calibrated gradations and expressions of class, conducted with symphonic intensity and complexity.... Extraordinarily well-made.??New York Times Book ReviewMarried Love is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today's most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity; her powerful, precise, and emotionally dense prose; her unflinching examinations of family relationships.Here are stories that range widely across generations and classes, exploring the private and public lives of unforgettable characters: a young girl who haunts the edges of her parents' party; a wife released by the sudden death of her film-director husband; an eighteen-year-old who insists on marrying her music professor, only to find herself shut out from his secrets.Hadley evokes worlds that expand in the imagination far beyond the pages, capturing domestic dramas, generational sagas, wrenching love affairs and epiphanies, and distilling them to remarkable effect.

An indelible story of one woman's life, revealed in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain's leading literary lights--Tessa Hadley."Clever Girl is...what could be called a 'sensibility' novel--a story that doesn't overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn't ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power."--Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book ReviewClever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an Englishwoman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley's involving and moving novel follows Stella from childhood, growing up with her single mother in a Bristol bedsit, into the murky waters of middle age. It is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama--violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances.Yet it is Hadley's observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another that elevate this tale into "a beautiful and precisely drawn portrait of an everywoman, both extraordinary and ordinary" (Minneapolis Star Tribune).

In this New York Times Notable Book from one of today's most acclaimed writers, two lives stretched between two cities converge in a chance meeting that will irrevocably change their lives. "Hadley is a supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence, someone who goes well beyond surfaces." --New York Times Book ReviewUnsettled by the recent death of his mother, Paul sets out in search of Pia, his daughter from his first marriage, who has disappeared into the labyrinth of London. Discovering her pregnant and living illegally in a run-down council flat with a pair of Polish siblings, Paul is entranced by Pia's excitement at living on the edge. Abandoning his second wife and their children in Wales, he joins her to begin a new life in the heart of London.Cora, meanwhile, is running in the opposite direction, back to Cardiff, to the house she has inherited from her parents. She is escaping her marriage, and the constrictions and disappointments of her life in London. But there is a deeper reason why she cannot stay with her decent Civil Service husband; the aftershocks of which she hasn't fully come to terms with herself.Connecting both stories is the London train, and a chance meeting that will have immediate and far-reaching consequences for both Paul and Cora.

Sommer 1967. Die Welt ist in Aufruhr. Die Jugend geht auf die Strae. Doch die Fischers neigen nicht dazu, aus der Reihe zu tanzen. Ihre kleine Welt in einem Londoner Vorort ist grundsolide: Die hubsche Phyllis kummert sich ruhrend um den Haushalt und um die beiden Kinder, den neunjahrigen Hugh, ihren Goldjungen, und die funfzehnjahrige Colette, wahrend Gatte Roger im Auenministerium Karriere macht. Doch als der kaum zwanzigjahrige Nicholas Knight in einer schwulen Sommernacht heftig mit Phyllis flirtet und sie schlielich leidenschaftlich kusst, gerat alles durcheinander. Phyllis nimmt die Welt mit neuen Augen wahr und trifft eine Entscheidung, die allen Erwartungen an eine brave Ehefrau und Mutter zuwiderlauft. Scharfsinnig und mit groer Empathie erforscht Tessa Hadley das Innenleben ihrer Figuren, ihre ngste und Sehnschte. Freie Liebe erzhlt auf unwiderstehlich sinnliche, einfhlsame und kluge Weise von einer Frau, die sich aus dem Korsett eines brgerlichen Lebens zu befreien versucht, von den Mglichkeiten und Grenzen romantischer Liebe, von Pflichten und Auf- brchen - und den Folgen, die das Streben nach Selbstverwirklichung haben kann.

After more than twenty years in London, Kate Flynn has abandoned her career as an academic, rented her apartment in the city, and moved back to live with her mother in the grand old house beside a lake where she grew up. Bored and lonely, Kate meets a childhood friend, David Roberts, at the opera. David is married, but Kate finds herself falling for him against her better judgment.At the same time, David's seventeen-year-old son is visiting Kate's house in secret, attracted by her eccentricity, her wit, and her shelves full of old books and music. Though she knows the risks, Kate cannot quite resist either man. As both father and son set about their parallel courtships, Tessa Hadley's intricate, graceful novel, The Master Bedroom, discovers the anxieties of adulthood, and the hazards of refusing to grow up.

A Picador Paperback OriginalTessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships.A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close.In Tessa Hadley's Sunstroke and Other Stories, everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old secrets and new appetites threaten to blow it apart.

When Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Vera and her sister Lil aren't at all alike. Vera, a teacher, has unquestioning belief in the powers of education and reason; Lil puts her faith in seances. Joyce is determined to be different: she falls in love with art (and her art teacher). Spanning five decades of extraordinary change in women's lives, Tessa Hadley's Everything Will Be All Right explores the tangled history of one family and the disasters, hopes, compromises, and ambitions of successive generations.

A powerful literary debut chronicling a year in the life of one thoroughly modern familyClare Verey, a twenty-nine-year-old mother of three, bakes her own bread and grinds her own spices. She has a comfortable home in the suburbs and a devoted husband. Why is it, then, that when her best friend's lover appears in her life he has the power to invert her world? Why is the desire for more never satisfied?So begins Accidents in the Home, a novel that exposes the emotional underbelly of a modern-day family. Clare's narrative is deftly intertwined with the stories of her extended family: her mother, Marian, the clever daughter of a Dostoevsky scholar whose husband leaves her for a beautiful young art student; Clare's half brother, Toby, a dreamy boy who prefers to view life through the lens of a camera; her troubled younger half sister, Tamsin, who develops an apparatus of taboos and rituals to restore order to her chaotic past. In the world Tessa Hadley has created, family is no longer a steady foundation but a complex web of marriages, divorces, half siblings, and stepchildren that expands with every new connection and betrayal. Accidents in the Home offers a startling, intimate portrait of family life in our time.

Rivalry, unruly desire and ugly secrets poison a family holiday in this gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day. 'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie SmithFour siblings meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks.