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As soon as she had settled into her seat at Euston, the man across the table had shown signs of wanting to talk. He had asked her how far she was going and…
Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley has contributed short stories to The New Yorker since 2002. Her books include “ After the Funeral and Other Stories.”
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A child woke up in the dark. She seemed to swim up into consciousness as if to a surface, which she then broke through, looking around with her eyes open. …
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Valentine and I looked so consummately right as a couple: stylish, easily intimate, his arm dropped casually across my shoulder, our clasped hands swinging…
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Fiction by Tessa Hadley: a teen-ager in the ninteen-sixties impulsively goes joyriding with a group of boys.
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“Every time I saw him I’d feel the same shock at his likeness to Patrick. And soon something began that I’m shocked to think of now.” A short story by Tessa Hadley.