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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day , discover a story of two lives stretched between two cities, two stories bound by the London train. Paul sets out in search of his eldest daughter Pia, who has gone missing somewhere in London. At first he thinks he wants to rescue her, but as time passes he is drawn deeper into the excitements of the capital, and a life lived in jeopardy, he forgets his own way home. In the opposite direction, Cora is moving back to Cardiff, to the house she inherited from her parents. She is escaping her marriage and the disappointments of her London life. And then she receives a telephone call to say that her husband has disappeared... 'She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Zusammenfassung From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two cities, two stories bound by the London train. Paul sets out in search of his eldest daughter Pia, who has gone missing somewhere in London.

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Tessa Hadley

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Authors Tessa Hadley, Hadley Tessa
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 05.01.2012
 
EAN 9780099552260
ISBN 978-0-09-955226-0
No. of pages 336
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
Series VINTAGE BOOKS
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Wales, London, Greater London, Cardiff, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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