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Bad Dreams and Other Stories
  • Published: 26 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473545618
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Bad Dreams and Other Stories

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15 Feb 2018
EBook
26 Jan 2017
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The dazzling new collection of stories from the prize-winning author of The Past and The London Train.


The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day.

**WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE**


Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party.

In these gripping and unsettling stories, the ordinary is made extraordinary and the real things that happen to people turn out to be every bit as mysterious as their dreams.

'These well-turned, exceptionally nuanced pieces are solidly evocative of place, period...and sensory detail' Sunday Times

'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie Smith
  • Published: 26 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473545618
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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About the author

Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley is the author of eight highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train, Clever Girl, The Past, Late in the Day and Free Love, and four collections of stories: Sunstroke, Married Love, Bad Dreams and After the Funeral. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016 and she has twice been awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, for 2018 and for 2024. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.

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Also by Tessa Hadley

Late in the Day
Free Love
After the Funeral
The Party
Accidents in the Home
The Past
Clever Girl
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Praise for Bad Dreams and Other Stories

She deserves all the prizes. Hadley is psychologically acute, drily witty and absolutely wonderful on place. Her relative obscurity, then, is an unfathomable mystery . . . The female characters at the heart of her novels – clever, impulsive, not always wholly likable – are so finely drawn, I can never get them out of my head

Rachel Cooke, Observer