The Master Bedroom

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<p>Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction</p><p>Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. When Kate meets David Roberts, a friend from the old days, she begins to obsess about him: she knows it's because she's bored and hasn't got anything else to do, but she can't stop.</p><p>Adapting to a new way of life, the connections Kate forges in her new home are to have painful consequences, as the past begins to cast its long shadow over the present...</p>

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<b>Tessa Hadley</b>is the author of six highly praised novels,<i>Accidents in the Home</i>, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award,<i>Everything Will Be All Right</i>,<i>The Master Bedroom</i>,<i>The London</i><i>Train,</i><i>Clever Girl</i>and<i>The Past</i>, and two collections of stories,<i>Sunstroke</i>and<i>Married Love</i>.<i>The Past</i>won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016. She lives in London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in the<i>New</i><i>Yorker</i>and other magazines.

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