<b>Few writers give me such consistent pleasure</b>
- Zadie Smith, author White Teeth,
<b>Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book</b>
- Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall,
She is <b>one of the best fiction writers writing today</b>
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Purple Hibiscus,
<b>The writer we didn’t know we were waiting for, until she arrived</b>
- Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren,
Something <b>small but perfectly formed</b> will always do well as Christmas draws near – ask Claire Keegan – and <b>Tessa Hadley’s novella <i>The Party</i> looks just the ticket.</b>
- Anthony Cummins, Observer
[An] <b>exquisite work </b>from <b>one of our finest writers</b>
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<i>The Party</i> is a coming-of-age story humming with all the tightly packed resonances of a poem… Tessa Hadley is <b>one of our finest chroniclers,</b> and this novella is<b> a glimmering, sensuous addition to her supremely elegant oeuvre</b>
Financial Times
The novelist and short story writer Tessa Hadley is alternately beloved and teased for her focus on British middle-class life. But she does it so well… <b>Hadley’s power is in the details</b>
Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*
<b>There is no-one who writes better</b> about middle-class life in 20th- and 21st-century Britain <b>than Tessa Hadley</b>
Evening Standard
Though the book is short…<b>Hadley’s touch [is] delicate as ever</b>
Guardian