Married Love

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<p>The new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tessa Hadley.</p><p>Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiancé is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior.It is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure.</p>

Autorenportrait

<b>Tessa Hadley</b>is the author of six highly praised novels,<i>Accidents in the Home</i>, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award,<i>Everything Will Be All Right</i>,<i>The Master Bedroom</i>,<i>The London</i><i>Train,</i><i>Clever Girl</i>and<i>The Past</i>, and two collections of stories,<i>Sunstroke</i>and<i>Married Love</i>.<i>The Past</i>won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016. She lives in London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in the<i>New</i><i>Yorker</i>and other magazines.

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