Clever Girl: A Powerful and Moving Story of Family Relationships, Class, and Broken Dreams in Modern England (P.S. (Paperback))

ISBN: 0062282883

Author: Hadley, Tessa

Condition: New

An indelible story of one womans life, revealed in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britains leading literary lights-Tessa Hadley.Clever Girl iswhat could be called a sensibility novel-a story that doesnt overreach, about a character who feels real, told in prose that isnt ornate yet is startlingly exact. The effect is a fine and well-chosen pileup of experiences that gather meaning and power.-Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book ReviewClever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life, witnessed through the experiences of an Englishwoman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots, Tessa Hadleys involving and moving novel follows Stella from childhood, growing up with her single mother in a Bristol bedsit, into the murky waters of middle age. It is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in drama-violent deaths, failed affairs, broken dreams, missed chances.Yet it is Hadleys observations of everyday life, her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another that elevate this tale into a beautiful and precisely drawn portrait of an everywoman, both extraordinary and ordinary (Minneapolis Star Tribune).