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Win The Master Bedroom
by Tessa Hadley
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The Master Bedroom
by Tessa Hadley
Publication Date: Apr 2008
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Three people will each win a paperback copy of The Master Bedroom.
This giveaway is open to residents of the USA only, unless you are a BookBrowse member, in which case you are eligible to win wherever you might live.
To enter this free book draw simply type your email address into the form below.
This free book draw is open to residents of the USA only (why?)
unless you are a BookBrowse member, in which case you are eligible to win wherever you live but may receive a different prize.
The winners will be selected at random from all eligible entries and will be notified by email shortly after the draw closes.
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From the Jacket
After more than twenty years in London, Kate Flynn has returned to her family home in Wales to care for her aging mother. Having cast off her academic career, she is unmoored, and when she runs into a childhood friend, David Roberts, at a concert, she finds herself falling for him, although she knows she’s grasping at anything to fill the sudden emptiness of her life.
For his part, David’s marriage isn’t as solid as it looks—his wife, Suzie, has begun acting strangely, moving out of their bedroom, neglecting their children, and disappearing for days at a time—and he begins to seek refuge with Kate from the newfound chaos of his life.
David’s seventeen-year-old son, Jamie, is also drawn to Kate’s eccentricity and her strange, glamorous old house full of books and music and history. As both father and son set about their parallel courtships, Tessa Hadley’s intricate, graceful novel explores the tangled web of connections between parents and children, revealing how each generation replays the stories of the one that came before, in new and sometimes startling patterns.
First published in hardcover: July 2007. Paperback: April 2008.
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Reviews
"This dreamy and thoughtful third novel from Hadley chronicles the slow-burning midlife crisis of Kate Flynn." - Publishers Weekly.
"A lovely, subtly teasing writer…Hadley’s observations of the ebb and flow of female desire and frustration are reminiscent of Virginia Woolf, but she taps sensual undercurrents where Woolf wouldn’t have dipped her toe." - The New York Times Book Review.
"Hadley has a knack for portraying the dysfunctional, often stagnant lives of the infuriatingly repressed." - Alexis Burling, The Washington Post.
"Hadley deserves praise for setting her novel in Cardiff, because despite Mrs Gaskell's efforts, fiction remains centred on the metropolis. I'd love to be able to hail this as being as engaging as the kind of rich, dense provincial novels being written by Kate Atkinson, Pat Ferguson and Helen Dunmore. Hadley doesn't probe deeply or widely enough for that to be the case, but there is every hope that one day, she will." - The Independent (UK).
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- This giveaway will close on May 15, 2008.
- Only one entry per person will be counted. Please do not submit entries from multiple email addresses - this is unfair to other visitors and will result in all your entries being voided!
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