Sunstroke and Other Stories

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<p>Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach.</p><p>Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.</p>

Autorenportrait

<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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