Free Love
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  • Published: 9 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529115239
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.00

Free Love

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9 May 2023
Hardback
1 Feb 2022
EBook
20 Jan 2022
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20 Jan 2022
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a compulsively readable novel about a suburban housewife's reawakening in 1960s London

'Tessa Hadley is my favourite author' KATE ATKINSON

It's 1967 and London is alive with the new youth revolution. In the suburbs, meanwhile, Phyllis Fischer inhabits a world of conventional stability. Married with two children, her life is both comfortable and predictable.

But when Nicky - a twenty-something friend of the family - visits one hot summer evening and kisses Phyllis in the dark of the garden, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations . . .

'Achingly moving and real' GUARDIAN

'A beautiful and exciting novel' THE TIMES

'An absolute joy to read from a writer who never puts a word wrong' RED
  • Published: 9 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529115239
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley is the author of six 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 and The Past, and three collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love and Bad Dreams. The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She lives in London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker and other magazines.

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Also by Tessa Hadley

Late in the Day
Bad Dreams and Other Stories
The Past
Clever Girl
Married Love
The London Train
The Master Bedroom
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Praise for Free Love

Honest to god, I utterly LOVED this book!!!!! Tessa Hadley might be my new favourite writer. She just 'gets' people, their flaws, their ignoble impulses, the transcendent moments... she is wonderful.'

Marian Keyes

Free Love is a perfect example of the Tessa Hadley problem: her books are so easy on the eye, such a joy to read, it's possible to forget how artful, profound and subtle they are - and what a great writer she is.

Geoff Dyer

So real and humane and utterly transporting; fresh and yet, with the feeling of a beloved classic.

Meg Mason