Publication Date: 03/03/2005 ISBN: 9780099462002 Category:

Everything Will Be All Right

Tessa Hadley

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 03/03/2005 ISBN: 9780099462002 Category:
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‘An astute and accomplished work’ Daily Mail

Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband. Joyce watches the two sisters – her aunt’s unbending dedication to the life of the mind, her mother worn down by housework – and thinks that each of them is powerless in her own way.

For Joyce, art school provides an escape route, and there she falls in love with one of her teachers. When she marries and has children, she is determined to manage her relationship with a new freedom, but will she be able to save herself from the mistakes of the previous generation? Or will her daughter, Zoe, only see Joyce as similarly trapped?

A poignant tale of navigating mothering and womanhood in twentieth century Britain, Everything Will Be All Right is yet another work of the finest beauty from Tessa Hadley.

Publisher Review

Few writers give me such consistent pleasure -- Zadie Smith She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today -- Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie Bewitchingly compelling... Gloriously addictive, delectably enjoyable... the reader is snared and kept captive to the last... Exquisite * Guardian * Hadley's fiction resembles that of Anne Tyler in aiming to illuminate ordinary life * Sunday Times * Genuinely exciting * New Statesman * Seductively written * Sunday Telegraph * Engrossing... This book is marvellous - a paean to the quiet splendour of life * Time Out * Witty and warm... An astute and accomplished work * Daily Mail * Fine-tuned, lyrical, exact * Independent * This fine, thoughtful novel underlines Tessa Hadley's skill at tackling and reclaiming the saga * Times Literary Supplement *

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