Free Love: The exhilarating new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day
Tessa Hadley
As London comes alive with the 1960s youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations.
'So real and humane and utterly transporting' Meg Mason
It's 1967 and London is alive with the new youth revolution. In the suburbs, meanwhile, Phyllis Fischer inhabits a world of conventional stability. Married with two children, her life is both comfortable and predictable.
But when Nicky - a twenty-something friend of the family - visits one hot summer evening and kisses Phyllis in the dark of the garden, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations . . .
'Wonderful' Marian Keyes
'My favourite author' Kate Atkinson
'Achingly moving and real' Guardian
'Beguiling' Hilary Mantel
'Compelling' Elizabeth Day
'Will bring you to tears' Daily Mail
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Reviews for Free Love: The exhilarating new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day
Meg Mason, author of SORROW AND BLISS I utterly LOVED this book!!!!! Tessa Hadley might be my new favourite writer... she is wonderful.
Marian Keyes A beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate.
Hilary Mantel Tessa Hadley is my favourite author.
Kate Atkinson Beautifully structured and brilliantly paced. It displays Tessa Hadley's extraordinary skill at making both surface life and deep interiors come fully alive.
Colm Tóibín I was utterly transported. Tessa Hadley is a true writer and this is such an enthralling novel, just so properly attentive to life.
Sunjeev Sahota Tessa Hadley knows everything there is to know about the intricate, complex, contradictory workings of the human mind and heart. Her power to embed that understanding in unfailingly intelligent prose is unmatched in contemporary fiction.
Neel Mukherjee Artful, profound and subtle . . . what a great writer she is.
Geoff Dyer In keen, lush prose, Hadley conveys the many ways her characters delude themselves amid fraught relationships between parents and children as well as between lovers. The result is sumptuous and surprising.
Publishers Weekly
A sumptuous stylist, Hadley is a writer for whom language trumps all else. Any publication of hers, whether of short or long fiction, is cause for celebration for the pure pleasure of the prose.
Mia Levitin
Financial Times