Tessa Hadley

Winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the YearAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe award-winning author of The Past once again "crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural" (Washington Post), in a collection of stories that elevate the mundane into the exceptional. The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories it's the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, made strange by the darkness; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and carelessly: each of these stories illuminate crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists. A girl accepts a lift in a car with some older boys; a young woman reads the diaries she discovers while housesitting. Small acts have large consequences, some that can reverberate across decades; private fantasies can affect other people, for better and worse. The real things that happen to people, the accidents that befall them, are every bit as mysterious as their longings and their dreams. Bad Dreams and Other Stories demonstrates yet again that Tessa Hadley "puts on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own. She is a true master" (Lily King, author of Euphoria).

Den här asken rymmer fyra noveller om drömmar. Här hittar du förutom en helt nyskriven novell av den prisbelönta författaren Kristina Sandberg, även hyllade novellstjärnan Tessa Hadleys berättelse ”Solsting” för första gången på svenska. Dessutom bjuds det på ett glimrande smakprov på Jane Austens karaktäristiska humor och en underfundig berättelse signerad Virginia Woolf. Med humor, värme och omsorg om de små detaljerna skildrar de fyra författarna på olika sätt drömmar och hur dessa faktiskt kan bli verklighet – oavsett om det handlar om kärlek, välstånd eller bara om att få något mer i livet. Asken innehåller fyra böcker:Kristina Sandberg – KvarlåtenskaperJane Austen – Tre systrarVirginia Woolf – Änkan och papegojanTessa Hadley – Solsting

Rachel tänker att hon inte kommer att kunna somna, uppslukad som hon är av det betydelsefulla som skett i hennes liv i dag. Hon tänker att hon inte kommer att fullfölja det här med Kieran, inte nu, inte den här gången. Men det förtar inte den euforiska känslan som kommer av vetskapen om att han vill ha henne, vetskapen om att han följt efter henne hit. Det får henne att känna det som om det fanns en fantastisk flod av hemliga möjligheter som flödade genom världen, riklig nog för att räcka till alla. Hon känner att hon från och med nu kommer att kunna sänka händerna i den floden och ta det som tillhör henne så fort hon känner för det. Kanske är det så att man redan lever sin dröm, att man har allt det där man önskade sig. Och kanske ställer man sig då frågan: Var detta allt? Vad händer den dagen? Kanske letar sig något annat in – någon annan – och kanske att drömmarna i en väcks på nytt. Den brittiska författaren Tessa Hadley har med sina romaner och novellsamlingar rönt framgångar hos såväl läsare som kritiker, och i svensk dagspress har hon hyllats som en ”mästare” för ”sin utsökta känsla för liv”. Det är framför allt i det korta formatet hon briljerar – Tessa Hadley är den som genom åren har fått flest noveller publicerade i den prestigefyllda tidskriften The New Yorker. Solsting ges nu ut för första gången på svenska, i översättning av författaren och översättaren Amanda Svensson.

"Exquisite." --Minneapolis Star Tribune - "Brilliantly observed." -- People, Pick of the Week"A beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate." -- Hilary MantelFrom the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past comes a compulsive new novel about one woman's sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London.1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. But when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family's upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them. With scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters' inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Daring and sensual, Free Love is an irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our selves - a novel that showcases Hadley's unrivaled ability to "put on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own" (Lily King, author of Euphoria).

Discover the seductive novel about one woman's sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London from the bestselling author of Late in the Day.1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. But when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. With scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters' inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Free Love is an irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our lives.'Tessa Hadley might be my new favourite writer. She just 'gets' people, their flaws, their ignoble impulses, the transcendent moments... she is wonderful.' Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel

Novellix – Stor litteratur i et lille formatEn æske fyldt med venskab. Her er fortællinger om loyalitet og om at dele alt. Om forrådt tillid og skuffelse, kærlighed og omtanke. Om venskaber på godt og ondt - på tre forskellige kontinenter. Noveller af fire af tidens mest priste internationale forfattere - til dig selv eller din bedste ven. Æsken indeholder fire bøger:Rachel Cusk – Det er sådan man gørLisa Taddeo – Weekend i forstadenChimamanda Ngozi Adichie – ApolloTessa Hadley – Solstik

Tessa Hadley är en av vår tids främsta novellister och den författare som publicerat flest noveller i The New Yorker. En student blir förälskad i sin lärare och inleder en affär med en man som liknar honom. En hemhjälp som tar hand om en åldrande man upptäcker hemligheter ur hans förflutna. En nyskild kvinna får låna en lägenhet och blir besatt av ägarinnans före detta pojkvän. Noveller innehåller ett urval från Tessa Hadleys tre novellsamlingar. Tre av novellerna är inte tidigare publicerade i bokform.

'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian KeyesThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novelAlex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties.

"With each new book by Tessa Hadley, I grow more convinced that she's one of the greatest stylists alive."--Ron Charles, Washington PostNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Parnassus First Editions Club Pick Powell's Indispensable Book Club Pick A Washington Post Notable Book A Slate Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Bookpage Best Book of the YearThe lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in the latest from Tessa Hadley, the acclaimed novelist and short story master who "recruits admirers with each book" (Hilary Mantel). Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer's evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead. In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach, with his generous, grounded spirit, was the irreplaceable one they couldn't afford to lose. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness. Late in the Day explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships, to expose how, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives, lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters' thoughts and interactions, Tessa Hadley once again "crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural" (Washington Post).

The award-winning author of Late in the Day once again "crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural" (Washington Post), in a collection of stories that elevate the mundane into the exceptional." Her meticulously observed, extraordinarily perceptive stories are as satisfying as Alice Munro's. Yes, Hadley is that good."--NPRWinner of the Edge Hill Short Story PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearAn NPR Best Book of the YearTessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories, it's the ordinary things that turn out to be the most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, made strange by the darkness; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and carelessly: each of these stories illuminate crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists. A girl accepts a lift in a car with some older boys; a young woman reads the diaries she discovers while housesitting. Small acts have large consequences, some that can reverberate across decades; private fantasies can affect other people, for better and worse. Bad Dreams and Other Stories demonstrates yet again that Tessa Hadley "puts on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own. She is a true master" (Lily King, author of Euphoria).

The "supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (New York Times Book Review) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks." A novel so evocative of summer and adolescence that to read it is to reexperience the deep languor and longing of those days." -- Tayari Jones, O Magazine"Exquisite. . . . For anyone who cherishes Anne Tyler and Alice Munro, the book offers similar deep pleasures." -- Ron Charles, Washington PostWinner of the Windham Campbell Prize - A Washington Post Best Book of the Year - A Time Best Book of the Year - A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year - A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year - A New York Times Editors' Choice Three sisters and a brother, complete with children, a new wife, and an ex-boyfriend's son, descend on their grandparents' dilapidated old home in the Somerset countryside for a final summer holiday. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past--their mother took them there to live when she left their father--but now, they may have to sell it. And beneath the idyllic pastoral surface lie tensions. As the family's stories and silences intertwine over the course of three long, hot weeks, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life--bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican--winds down to its inevitable end.

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.

Alex och Christine, och Lydia och Zach, har varit vänner sedan tjugoårsåldern, långt innan de blev två gifta par. Nu trettio år senare lever de ett stilla medelklassliv i London – tills en förtvivlad Lydia en dag ringer från sjukhuset och berättar att Zach har dött av en hjärtinfarkt. Alla tre är överens om att Zach, med sitt generösa och jordnära sätt, var den oersättliga, den som de inte hade råd att förlora. Men istället för att de kommer varandra nära i den gemensamma sorgen, börjar ouppklarade problem och oförrätter från förr långsamt stiga upp till ytan. Med precision och stor inlevelse blottlägger Tessa Hadley de komplexa trådar som våra mest intima relationer består av.

Fyra syskon semestrar i sin barndoms sommarstuga. Roland kommer med sin nya fru som systrarna inte tycker om. Alice har med sig en gammal kärleks tonårsson som smider planer att förföra Rolands dotter. Fran kommer utan sin man som prioriterat turné med bandet. Och äldsta systern Harriet får sin självbild sönderslagen när passionen slår till. Nuet och det förflutna glider in i och påverkar varandra tills allt är förändrat.

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in the latest from Tessa Hadley, the acclaimed novelist and short story master who recruits admirers with each book (Hilary Mantel). Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer's evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead. In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach, with his generous, grounded spirit, was the irreplaceable one they couldn't afford to lose. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness. Late in the Day explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships, to expose how, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives, lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters' thoughts and interactions, Tessa Hadley once again crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural (Washington Post).

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in the latest from Tessa Hadley, the acclaimed novelist and short story master who recruits admirers with each book (Hilary Mantel). Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer's evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead. In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach, with his generous, grounded spirit, was the irreplaceable one they couldn't afford to lose. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness. Late in the Day explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships, to expose how, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives, lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters' thoughts and interactions, Tessa Hadley once again crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural (Washington Post).

Fyra syskon semestrar i sin barndoms sommarstuga. Roland kommer med sin nya fru som systrarna inte tycker om. Alice har med sig en gammal kärleks tonårsson som smider planer att förföra Rolands dotter. Fran kommer utan sin man som prioriterat turné med bandet. Och äldsta systern Harriet får sin självbild sönderslagen när passionen slår till. Nuet och det förflutna glider in i och påverkar varandra tills allt är förändrat.

The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day. **WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE**Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby.

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 grandparentsâ?? old house for three long, hot summer weeks.