TESSA HADLEY
Tessa Hadley is the author of six 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 and The Past, and two collections of stories, Sunstroke and Married Love. She lives in London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker and other magazines.
ALSO BY TESSA HADLEY
Accidents in the Home
Sunstroke and Other Stories
The Master Bedroom
The London Train
Married Love
Clever Girl
The Past
TESSA HADLEY
Everything Will Be All Right
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First published in Vintage in 2005 First published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in 2004 penguin.co.uk/vintage
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