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First Published:
Jul 2023, 240 pages
Paperback:
Jul 2, 2024, 240 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Rebecca Foster
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In eight novels and four short story collections, Tessa Hadley has made a name for herself with a beautifully subtle style and deep insights into what makes relationships strain and sometimes break. The dozen stories in After the Funeral arise from everyday tragedies – illness, divorce, death, and estrangement – but amid the sadness there are opportunities for surprise connections and sudden decisions that might alter the whole course of a life.
Hadley is an English author, and most of her stories are set in London or the English countryside and are concerned with middle-class English families. The title story, which opens the book, is one of the strongest. In the 1970s, Lulu and Charlotte lose their father, an airplane pilot, to a heart attack. With money tight, they have to move out of their rental house and their mother has to go to work as a doctor's receptionist. As ...
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