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V románe Bystré dievča zostáva Tessa Hadley verná svojmu štýlu a témam známym zo zbierky poviedok Manželská láska a iné poviedky. Román je životným príbehom Stelly začínajúcim jej detstvom, ktoré strávila s matkou a nevlastným otcom v malom byte v Bristole v šesťdesiatych rokoch. Veľa čítala a snívala o živote naplnenom eleganciou a dobrodružstvom. Všetko má však svoju cenu a ani bystré dievča nemusí zistiť, že sa chytilo do pasce; až keď je príliš neskoro. Napriek tomu, že Stellin život je naplnený drámou, plynie na pozadí obyčajnosti. Tessa Hadley je skvelou pozorovateľkou citových a myšlienkových pohnútok mužov a žien a ich vzájomných vzťahov.

Poviedky Tessy Hadley sú o láske, o stereotypoch, ktoré si s ňou spájame a ktoré takmer nikdy nie sú pravdivé. Každý príbeh je citlivou štúdiou ľudských problémov a vzťahov – medzi partnermi, rodičmi a deťmi, súrodencami, priateľmi. Sú príbehmi o strachu zo straty ideálov a poviedkami o ilúziách, ktoré sme už stratili. Tessa Hadley na niekoľkých stranách dokáže sprostredkovať život v celej jeho komplexnosti, či už ide o manželstvo mladučkej Lottie s mužom, ktorý je starší ako jej rodičia, alebo vzťah medzi súrodencami, ktorí zostali odkázaní sami na seba v čoraz komplikovanejšom a povrchnejšom svete. Tessa Hadley podobne ako Alice Munro jasnozrivo opisuje ľudské výpravy krajinou krehkých citov. Zbierka poviedok MANŽELSKÁ LÁSKA je malým pokladom z perál, majstrovským dielom jednej z najlepších súčasných rozprávačiek.

The book explores the intricate portrayal of both the advantages and struggles faced by society at the turn of the century through the lens of James's work. It delves into themes of social class, privilege, and the complexities of human experience during a transformative period, highlighting how these elements influence character development and narrative structure. Through critical analysis, it sheds light on the nuanced interactions between individuals and their societal contexts.

Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.

Sunday Times bestseller Tessa Hadley explores the big consequences of small events in this new collection 'You've either got it or you haven't. Hadley's got it' FINANCIAL TIMES Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Janey's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janey's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Teenager Cecilia wakes one morning on vacation with her parents in Florence and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes. These stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality, and dreams.

Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband. Joyce watches the two sisters - her aunt's unbending dedication to the life of the mind, her mother worn down by housework - and thinks that each of them is powerless in her own way.

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for FictionKate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff.

"Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later, Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer's evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia: she is at the hospital. Zach is dead. In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach, with his generous, grounded spirit, was the irreplaceable one they couldn't afford to lose. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness"--

In these short stories it's the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric, say, and a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, strange in the dark; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and carelessly: the stories focus in on crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists. A girl accepts a lift in a car with some older boys, or a young woman reads the diaries she comes across when she's housesitting. Small acts have large consequences, and some of them reverberate across decades; things fantasised in private can reach out to affect other people, for better and worse. An older woman recovering from serious illness speaks to a lonely young man on a train; an old friend brings bad news to a dinner party; a schoolteacher in the throes of a painful affair in 1914 has mixed feelings about her pupils' suffragette-craze. The real things that happen to people, the accidents that befall them, are every bit as mysterious as their longings and their dreams.

'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie Smith Four siblings meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. But under the idyllic surface lie shattering tensions. Roland has come with his new wife, and his sisters don't like her. Fran has brought her children, who soon uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods. Alice has invited Kasim, an outsider, who makes plans to seduce Roland's teenage daughter. And Harriet, the eldest, finds her quiet self-possession ripped apart when passion erupts unexpectedly. Over the course of the holiday, a familiar way of life falls apart forever. 'Exquisite' The Times 'Wonderful' Guardian 'Magnificent' Sunday Times