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Tessa Hadley is the author of eight highly praised novels- Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train, Clever Girl, The Past, Late in the Day and Free Love, and four collections of stories- Sunstroke, Married Love, Bad Dreams and After the Funeral. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016 and she has twice been awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, for 2018 and for 2024. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.
The key to Hadley's style of storytelling is in her ungarnished prose. The day-to-dayness of her language amplifies the situations she writes about Evening Standard Hadley is a talented writer Scotland on Sunday Hadley's light touch results in a story thrilling with nuance -- Stephanie Cross TLS Hadley's style is as discreet as good tailoring. She writes with an elegant assurance -- Patrick Gale Independent The stories sparkle...Hadley is fascinating for the way she admits a fantasy or a missed chance can be more significant than the actual events that shape a life Metro
