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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, 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 Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker . Klappentext As London comes alive with the 1960s youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations. 'So real and humane and utterly transporting' Meg Mason It's 1967 and London is alive with the new youth revolution. In the suburbs, meanwhile, Phyllis Fischer inhabits a world of conventional stability. Married with two children, her life is both comfortable and predictable. But when Nicky - a twenty-something friend of the family - visits one hot summer evening and kisses Phyllis in the dark of the garden, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations . . . 'Wonderful' Marian Keyes 'My favourite author' Kate Atkinson 'Achingly moving and real' Guardian 'Beguiling' Hilary Mantel 'Compelling' Elizabeth Day 'Will bring you to tears' Daily Mail Zusammenfassung As London comes alive with the 1960s youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations. 'So real and humane and utterly transporting' Meg Mason It's 1967 and London is alive with the new youth revolution. In the suburbs, meanwhile, Phyllis Fischer inhabits a world of conventional stability. Married with two children, her life is both comfortable and predictable. But when Nicky - a twenty-something friend of the family - visits one hot summer evening and kisses Phyllis in the dark of the garden, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations . . . 'Wonderful' Marian Keyes 'My favourite author' Kate Atkinson 'Achingly moving and real' Guardian 'Beguiling' Hilary Mantel 'Compelling' Elizabeth Day 'Will bring you to tears' Daily Mail ...
