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Clever Girl
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Clever Girl

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An indelible story of one woman’s life, revealed in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain’s leading literary lights–Tessa Hadley.

Clever Girl is…what could be called a ‘sensibility’ novel–a story that doesn’t overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn’t ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power. –Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book Review

Clever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an Englishwoman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley’s involving and moving novel follows Stella from childhood, growing up with her single mother in a Bristol bedsit, into the murky waters of middle age. It is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama–violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances.

Yet it is Hadley’s observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another that elevate this tale into a beautiful and precisely drawn portrait of an everywoman, both extraordinary and ordinary (Minneapolis Star Tribune).

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Date
14 April 2015
Pages
288
ISBN
9780062282880

An indelible story of one woman’s life, revealed in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain’s leading literary lights–Tessa Hadley.

Clever Girl is…what could be called a ‘sensibility’ novel–a story that doesn’t overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isn’t ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power. –Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book Review

Clever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an Englishwoman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley’s involving and moving novel follows Stella from childhood, growing up with her single mother in a Bristol bedsit, into the murky waters of middle age. It is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama–violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances.

Yet it is Hadley’s observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another that elevate this tale into a beautiful and precisely drawn portrait of an everywoman, both extraordinary and ordinary (Minneapolis Star Tribune).

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Date
14 April 2015
Pages
288
ISBN
9780062282880