Accidents in the Home von Tessa Hadley

The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author
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'A novel as tight as a snare-drum and as bright as the moon' Financial Times

Discover the debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day and Free Love, Tessa Hadley.

Clare and Helly have been friends since school. Now, Clare is married with three small children, she bakes her own bread and buys her clothes from the charity shop. Meanwhile, Helly is an actress and has her golden curves pasted up on billboards ten foot high. Each of them seems to want what the other has.

An improbable coincidence brings Clare back into contact with someone she once had sex with at a teenage party: he's Helly's new boyfriend. The encounter needn't have meant anything - it could just have been funny, or embarrassing - but it seems to have the power to shake up everything in Clare's life.

Accidents in the Home dips in and out of the lives of Clare's complicated, close, fraught family, reaching out into the past for explanation and illumination as well as across the present. This is the debut of a quite formidable fictional talent.

'This writer is a rare and startling gem; she deserves to be read' Guardian


B-Format Paperback

'A novel as tight as a snare-drum and as bright as the moon' Financial Times

Discover the debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day and Free Love, Tessa Hadley.

Clare and Helly have been friends since school. Now, Clare is married with three small children, she bakes her own bread and buys her clothes from the charity shop. Meanwhile, Helly is an actress and has her golden curves pasted up on billboards ten foot high. Each of them seems to want what the other has.

An improbable coincidence brings Clare back into contact with someone she once had sex with at a teenage party: he's Helly's new boyfriend. The encounter needn't have meant anything - it could just have been funny, or embarrassing - but it seems to have the power to shake up everything in Clare's life.

Accidents in the Home dips in and out of the lives of Clare's complicated, close, fraught family, reaching out into the past for explanation and illumination as well as across the present. This is the debut of a quite formidable fictional talent.

'This writer is a rare and startling gem; she deserves to be read' Guardian


B-Format Paperback
AutorHadley, Tessa
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2003
Seitenangabe256 S.
LieferstatusLieferbar in ca. 10-20 Arbeitstagen
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.6 cm 181 g
CoverlagVintage (Imprint/Brand)
VerlagRandom House UK

Über den Autor Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley, 1956 in Bristol geboren, wechselt zwischen zwei Rollen hin und her: Ihr »soziales Ich« kümmert sich um ihren Ehemann, ihre drei Söhne und ebenso viele Enkelkinder, während ihr »schreibendes Ich« geduldig hinter den Kulissen warten muss, bis es wieder auftreten darf. Aber das eine gäbe es nicht ohne das andere: Auch in ihrem Schreiben beschäftigt sich Hadley, wie ihre großen Vorbilder Jane Austen und Jean Rhys, mit dem Familienleben und sozialen Beziehungen. Bevor sie sich dem Schreiben widmete, arbeitete Tessa Hadley kurze Zeit - sehr unglücklich - als Lehrerin. Mit Ende dreißig studierte sie Kreatives Schreiben in Bath (wo sie heute unterrichtet) und promovierte mit einer Arbeit über Henry James. Ihren ersten Roman veröffentlichte sie erst mit 46. Für ihre Romane und Kurzgeschichten erhielt sie zahlreiche Preise, 2009 wurde sie zum Fellow der Royal Society of Literature gewählt.

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