The past : a novel
Hadley, Tessa
The past : a novel / Tessa Hadley. - First U.S. edition. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2016 - 311 p. ; 24 cm
Three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past - their mother took them there when she left their father - but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions. Roland has come with his new wife and his sisters don't like her. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice's ex-boyfriend, makes plans to seduce Molly, Roland's teenage daughter. Fran's children uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods. Passion erupts where it's least expected, blasting the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the oldest sister. A way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its inevitable end. Tessa Hadley charts the squalls of lust and envy disrupting this ill-assorted house party, as well as the consolations of memory and affection, the beauty of the natural world, the shifting of history under the social surface.
English.
9780062270412
Brothers and sisters----Fiction
Families----Fiction
Family reunions----Fiction
Memory -- Fiction
PR6108.A35 / P38 2016
FIC HAD
The past : a novel / Tessa Hadley. - First U.S. edition. - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2016 - 311 p. ; 24 cm
Three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past - their mother took them there when she left their father - but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions. Roland has come with his new wife and his sisters don't like her. Kasim, the twenty-year-old son of Alice's ex-boyfriend, makes plans to seduce Molly, Roland's teenage daughter. Fran's children uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods. Passion erupts where it's least expected, blasting the quiet self-possession of Harriet, the oldest sister. A way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its inevitable end. Tessa Hadley charts the squalls of lust and envy disrupting this ill-assorted house party, as well as the consolations of memory and affection, the beauty of the natural world, the shifting of history under the social surface.
English.
9780062270412
Brothers and sisters----Fiction
Families----Fiction
Family reunions----Fiction
Memory -- Fiction
PR6108.A35 / P38 2016
FIC HAD
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