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Tessa Hadley

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Tessa Hadley is the author of Sunstroke and Other Stories, and the novels The Master Bedroom, Everything Will Be All Right, and Accidents in the Home. She lives in Cardiff, Wales, and teaches literature and creative writing at Bath Spa University.

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Average rating: 3.23 · 1,085 ratings · 278 reviews · 16 distinct works

	The London Train 3.11 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Master Bedroom: A Novel 2.84 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Sunstroke and Other Stories 3.57 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Accidents in the Home 3.28 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Everything Will Be All Right 3.54 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Married Love 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Tales of Betrayal by Tessa Hadley, Adam Haslett (Goodreads Author), Rattawut Lapcharoensap 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Married Love: And Other Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Eagle in the Maze: An Anthology of Stories from the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition 2008 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“I probably reread novels more often than I read new ones. The novel form is made for rereading. Novels are by their nature too long, too baggy, too full of things – you can't hold them completely in your mind. This isn't a flaw – it's part of the novel's richness: its length, multiplicity of aspects, and shapelessness resemble the length and shapelessness of life itself. By the time you reach the end of the novel you will have forgotten the beginning and much of what happens in between: not the main outlines but the fine work, the detail and the music of the sentences – the particular words, through which the novel has its life. You think you know a novel so well that there must be nothing left in it to discover but the last time I reread Emma I found a little shepherd boy, brought into the parlour to sing for Harriet when she's staying with the Martin family. I'm sure he was never in the book before.

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― Tessa Hadley

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“Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her fate. I actually think that this is quite rare, the capacity to become the whole shape of the accidents that happen to you.”
― Tessa Hadley

tags: accidents , fate , life , personality

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