Hadley, Tessa <br/><br/>
Married love and other stories 
/ Tessa Hadley. 
 - London  : Jonathan Cape  , 2012. 
 - 232 p.  ; 23 cm. 
<br/><br/> These stories are rich in character and steeped in class consciousness. In the exquisite title story, a 19-year-old violin student shocks her family by announcing that she intends to marry her music teacher, a married man 45 years her senior. To no one's surprise, things don't go well: three babies come along in rapid succession, her music career is forgotten, and other young women catch her husband's eye. Other stories capture familiar slice-of-life moments: a cleaning woman, diligently scrubbing toilets in an industrial work site, is preoccupied with her son's safe return from Afghanistan; a rectory-raised college student visiting her boyfriend's parents for the first time overhears his mother ridiculing her posh accent; and a schoolgirl's new friendship with a girl from "the Homes" is a cause for concern to her mother. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780062135643 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012358423 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, English
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6108.A35  / M37 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>FIC HAD