Sunstroke and Other Stories

Truly absorbing... a masterful yet understated read... More please

Sunday Express

Hadley is a talented writer

Scotland on Sunday

Brilliant... Hadley's style is as discreet as good tailoring

Independent

Really very sexy... she is the writer we didn't know we were waiting for, until she arrived

Anne Enright, Guardian

The stories sparkle...Hadley is fascinating for the way she admits a fantasy or a missed chance can be more significant than the actual events that shape a life

Metro

A wholly satisfying collection of stories...Distinguished by a dry humour and prose that often surprises but is never merely showy, Sunstroke catches life on the wing and pins it, fiercely struggling to the page

Peter Parker, Sunday Times

A brooding, real-life collection bruised by knowledge and sustained by familiar discomfort

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

In Sunstroke nothing is stable or predictable... These wonderfully elegant but rather unsettling stories may be set within the confines of the home, but they are not cosy

Clare Staunton, Time Out, Book of the Week

Absorbing and slyly revelatory

Hepzibah Anderson, Daily Mail

Tessa Hadley excels in glimpses: those small, burning memories that we never lose and which haunt as well as remind... A wonderful collection

Brian Henigan, Herald

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

Few writers give me such consistent pleasure

Zadie Smith