Married Love Av Tessa Hadley

<p><b>''The ghost of Katherine Mansfield hovers lightly over these deceptively delicate snapshots'' <i>Metro</i></b><br><br><b>A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of<i> Free Love</i>, <i>The Past </i>and <i>Late in the Day</i>, Tessa Hadley.</b><br><br>Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiancé is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie''s university, forty-five years her senior.It is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure.<br><br><b>''The most perceptive chronicler since George Eliot of avid, unworldly young women'' <i>Guardian </i></b></p>