Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including Free Love, Late In The Day, and The Past, and three short-story collections, including After The Funeral and Bad Dreams and Other Stories. Her novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016, she
Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including Free Love, Late In The Day, and The Past, and three short-story collections, including After The Funeral and Bad Dreams and Other Stories.
Her novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016, she won the Hawthornden Prize, as well as one of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes for fiction. The Windham-Campbell judges describe her as “one of English’s finest contemporary writers” and state that her writing “brilliantly illuminates ordinary lives with extraordinary prose that is superbly controlled, psychologically acute, and subtly powerful.”
She teaches literature and creative writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker, Granta and other magazines.
