Sunstroke and Other Stories

Sunstroke and Other Stories

<p>A Picador Paperback Original</p><p>Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships.</p><p>A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close.</p><p>In Tessa Hadley's stories, everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old secrets and new appetites threaten to blow it apart.</p>