Clever Girl: A Novel

Clever Girl: A Novel

<p><em>Clever Girl</em> is an indelible story of one woman€s life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain€s leading literary lights€"Tessa Hadley€"the author of the <em>New York Times</em> Notable Books <em>Married Love</em> and <em>The London Train</em>.</p><p>Like Alice Munro and Colm T³ibin, Tessa Hadley brilliantly captures the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives€"an ability to transform the mundane into the sublime that elevates domestic fiction to literary art.</p><p>Written with the celebrated precision, intensity, and complexity that have marked her previous works, <em>Clever Girl</em> is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an English woman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadley€s moving novel follows Stella from the shallows of childhood, growing up with a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s, into the murky waters of middle age.</p><p><em>Clever Girl</em> is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama€"violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances. Yet it is Hadley€s observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another, that dazzles.</p>