Late in the Day The classic Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of Free Love
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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, Free Love and three collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love and Bad Dreams. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.<b>Tessa Hadley is one of our finest writers</b>. The sensitivity of her psychological insight and understanding is<b> unmatched by anyone writing today</b>... [in <i>Late in the Day</i>], Hadley comes into her own. <b>It’s glorious stuff: moving, beautiful and so enjoyable</b>. All hail Queen Tessa!
- Robbie Millen and James Marriott, The Times *Books of the Year*
Hadley’s<b> wonderful </b>tale [<i>Late in the Day –</i>] measured, ironic, <b>disarmingly perceptive</b> – <b>picks up on all the contradictions of human existence</b>. With Hadley, you know there’s an adult in the room.
Observer
The quintessential domestic novel in the most elevated sense… <b>excellently insightful on family dynamics and</b> <b>the intricacies of close friendship.</b>
The High Low podcast
<b>With each new book by Tessa Hadley, I grow more convinced that she’s</b> <b>one of the greatest stylists alive</b>… her quietly elegant style and muted wit are <b>triumphs</b>… the everyday tragedies and betrayals of domestic life [are] rendered by Hadley’s prose into something <b>extraordinary</b>… The tone of <i>Late in the Day</i> is <b>perhaps Hadley’s most delicate accomplishment</b>.
Washington Post
You know you are in safe hands with Tessa Hadley who, on a sheer sentence-by-sentence level, <b>delivers more enjoyment than almost any other living writer... you'll be hanging on to every word.</b>
- Claire Allfree, Daily Mail *The Best Holiday Reading*
<b>There may be no historical newness to women’s disenchantment with male authority, but it feels new to write about it with this much raw honesty</b>… It’s to her great credit that Hadley manages to be old-fashioned and modernist and brilliantly postmodern all at once… Unlocking age-old mysteries in ways both revelatory and inevitable. <b>We’ve seen this before, and we’ve never seen this before, and it’s spectacular</b>.
New York Times
<b>My favourite novel of 2019 by a long way was Tessa Hadley's <i>Late in the Day</i></b>… Hadley is a beautifully descriptive writer and a penetrating observer of human nature.
- James Marriott, Sunday Times *Books of the Year*
<b>Like all Hadley’s novels, <i>Late in the Day</i> enthrals. </b>
Tatler
Tessa Hadley picks apart the stitches of marriage, friendship and self with an almost forensic curiosity [in <i>Late in the Day</i>], <b>cementing her place as one of Britain's finest writers of contemporary fiction</b>.
Vogue
Hadley examines profound areas of life – friendship, marriage, parenthood, grief, love – with <b>a delightful precision, hitting different nails on the head over and over again</b>… Her novel is full of these piercing little moments of revelation… [because of] the crispness of Hadley’s narrative, and the wisdom of her observations: you trust her… [<b><i>Late in the Day</i> has</b>] <b>a touch of genius</b>.
Mail on Sunday
'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian Keyes
The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel
Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties. From student house-shares and grubby pubs to proper homes and grown-up careers, the two couples' lives have been interlinked for decades. Then one evening, Alex and Christine receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead.
Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of their loss bringing them closer, the three of them find that love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness as old entanglements and resentments rise from the past.
'A fine-grained novel of friendship, loss and jealousy' Sunday Times, *100 Great 21-Century Novels*
'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian Keyes
The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel
Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties.