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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 06/03/2014
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ISBN: 9780099570523
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
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Weight: 245g
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RRP: £9.99
The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an ordinary life made extraordinary by the gifts of Tessa Hadley.
Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so.
Living with her mother and rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse and dreams of a less ordinary life. When she meets Val, he seems to her to embody everything she longs for - glamour, ideas, excitement and the thrill of the unknown. But these things come at a price and one that Stella despite all her cleverness doesn't realise until it is too late.
'Tessa Hadley writes like a dream' Daily Mail
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 06/03/2014
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ISBN: 9780099570523
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
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Weight: 245g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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Few writers give me such consistent pleasure
Zadie Smith
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She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
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As discrete entities, Hadley’s short stories are intense, miniature novels in themselves; bound together in a novel, they become quietly brilliant, offering an incisive exploration into how life’s individuals episodes add up to a meaningful whole.
Francesca Angelini, Sunday Times
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Hadley is a writer of exceptional intelligence and skill and, for all the apparent conventionality of her vision, hers is a subtly subversive talent.
Edmund Gordon, Observer
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There is something reassuring yet deliciously unexpected about a Tessa Hadley novel.
Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph
