The new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tessa Hadley. 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 fiancΓ© is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religio
Married Love and Other Stories
β Scribed by Hadley, Tessa
- Book ID
- 109031459
- Publisher
- Random House
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tessa Hadley.
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 fiancΓ© 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.
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