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Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. A collection of stories, Sunstroke, and a novel, The Master Bedroom, were published last year.

From the London Review dated 25 January 2007

Dream Leaps

Alice Munro doesn’t write much about her writing: there are only a few interviews, hardly any essays or journalistic pieces, and we don’t catch her holding forth about her literary likes and dislikes. But here in her new collection, The View from Castle Rock, she speaks to us directly, first in a brief introduction explaining the way the book has been put together, and then in a piece, ‘No Advantages’, in which she describes in her own person the researches into her family history that have resulted in some of the stories that follow. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Sunstroke and Other Stories (2007)
  • Everything Will Be Alright (2004)
  • Accidents in the Home (2002)
  • Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure (2002)

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