Married Love Book

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 fiance is Edgar Lennox a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university forty-five years her senior. We follow as Lottie's life unfolds; her marriage to Edgar the tiny flat they share the children that follow. 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 new collection. On full display in these stories are the qualities Tessa Hadley has been praised for often before: her unflinching examination of family relationships; her humour warmth and psychological acuity; and her powerful and precise prose. In this collection there are domestic dramas generational sagas wrenching love affairs and epiphanies - captured and distilled to remarkable effect. "Married Love" is a collection to treasure a masterful new work from one of the most accomplished storytellers of today.Read More