Late in the Day

Tessa Hadley is one of our finest writers. The sensitivity of her psychological insight and understanding is unmatched by anyone writing today... [in Late in the Day], Hadley comes into her own. Its glorious stuff: moving, beautiful and so enjoyable. All hail Queen Tessa! -- Robbie Millen and James Marriott * The Times *Books of the Year* * Hadleys wonderful tale [Late in the Day ] measured, ironic, disarmingly perceptive picks up on all the contradictions of human existence. With Hadley, you know theres an adult in the room. * Observer * The quintessential domestic novel in the most elevated sense excellently insightful on family dynamics and the intricacies of close friendship. * The High Low podcast * With each new book by Tessa Hadley, I grow more convinced that shes one of the greatest stylists alive her quietly elegant style and muted wit are triumphs the everyday tragedies and betrayals of domestic life [are] rendered by Hadleys prose into something extraordinary The tone of Late in the Day is perhaps Hadleys most delicate accomplishment. * Washington Post * You know you are in safe hands with Tessa Hadley who, on a sheer sentence-by-sentence level, delivers more enjoyment than almost any other living writer... you'll be hanging on to every word. -- Claire Allfree * Daily Mail *The Best Holiday Reading* * There may be no historical newness to womens disenchantment with male authority, but it feels new to write about it with this much raw honesty Its to her great credit that Hadley manages to be old-fashioned and modernist and brilliantly postmodern all at once Unlocking age-old mysteries in ways both revelatory and inevitable. Weve seen this before, and weve never seen this before, and its spectacular. * New York Times * My favourite novel of 2019 by a long way was Tessa Hadley's Late in the Day Hadley is a beautifully descriptive writer and a penetrating observer of human nature. -- James Marriott * Sunday Times *Books of the Year* * Like all Hadleys novels, Late in the Day enthrals. * Tatler * Tessa Hadley picks apart the stitches of marriage, friendship and self with an almost forensic curiosity [in Late in the Day], cementing her place as one of Britain's finest writers of contemporary fiction. * Vogue * Hadley examines profound areas of life friendship, marriage, parenthood, grief, love with a delightful precision, hitting different nails on the head over and over again Her novel is full of these piercing little moments of revelation [because of] the crispness of Hadleys narrative, and the wisdom of her observations: you trust her [Late in the Day has] a touch of genius. * Mail on Sunday * Another quiet masterpiece from a modern great. -- Robbie Millen and James Marriott * The Times *The Best Books of 2019* * Tessa Hadley is one of your finest writers [she] approaches her subjects with the sort of attention to detail that a Dutch Golden Age master might bring to a jug and a bowl of fruit Hadley is the real deal. * The Times * A real triumph a very fine novel. * Radio 4, Saturday Review * [Hadley] is a gifted anatomist of human relationships... Her particular genius lies in the elegance and precision with which she captures the fleeting emotion, the passing, indefinable perception or tiny epiphany. * Wall Street Journal * I absolutely loved Tessa Hadley's Late in the Day There are few British writers who are more acute at a micro-level on the psychology of their characters and I was completely engrossed by this novel. -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times *Books of the Year* * I loved Tessa Hadleys Late in the Day. Hadley brings the gifts of a still-life painter to her fiction yet manages to produce satisfying twists and turns to her storytelling. -- Melissa Benn * New Statesman, *Books of the Year* * Hadleys fiction both long and short has, with a delicious, detached clarity, observed the sha

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 three collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love and Bad Dreams. 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.