The Past

"The Past" by Tessa Hadley, published by Random House. 'There is something reassuring yet deliciously unexpected about a Tessa Hadley novel.' - Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph Over five novels and two collections of stories Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts, and been compared with Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. In her new novel three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past -- their mother took them there when she left their father but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions. Roland has come with his new wife and his sisters dont like her. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alices ex-boyfriend, makes plans to seduce Molly, Rolands teenage daughter. Frans children uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods. Passion erupts where its least expected, blasting the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the oldest sister. A way of life bourgeois, literate, ritualised winds down to its inevitable end. With uncanny precision and extraordinary sympathy, Tessa Hadley charts the squalls of lust and envy disrupting this ill-assorted house party, as well as the consolations of memory and affection, the beauty of the natural world, the shifting of history under the social surface. From the first page the reader is absorbed and enthralled, watching a superb craftsman at work. Book details: published 2015. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.