Join Tessa Hadley, the acclaimed “writer’s writer” admired by Zadie Smith, Lily King, Colm Tóibín, and Anne Enright, as she discusses her extraordinary body of work.

Hadley is celebrated for her chronicles of lost ambitions, unfolding love affairs, and generational change, rendered with what critics’ call “quietly devastating psychological depth and elegant prose.”

Her novels include The Past, Late in the Day, and Free Love, Tessa will discuss her latest novella The Party (2024), a captivating coming-of-age story set in post-war Bristol about two sisters whose lives change forever after a single night of risk and revelation. In this delightful story, Tessa Hadley explores the everchanging desires, the sudden revelations and the lasting mysteries that are bound up with who we are, and who we might become.

Hadley won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.

Discover why Hadley’s fiction, praised for its insight, subtlety, and emotional truth, has earned her a devoted following among readers and writers alike.

Age recommendation 14+