Sunday Times bestseller Tessa Hadley explores the big consequences of small events in this new
collection 'Tessa Hadley is my favourite author' KATE ATKINSON 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 holiday with her parents in Florence and sees them for
the first time through disenchanted eyes. These twelve stories plumb the depths of everyday
life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. 'Few
writers give me such consistent pleasure' ZADIE SMITH 'Hadley is fantastically inventive . .
. A magnificent collection' Daily Telegraph 'Wonderful . . . The quality of suspense and
satisfaction in Hadley's stories is miraculous' Vogue Books of the Year
