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050	0	0	_aPR6108.A35 _bM37 2012
080			_aFIC HAD
100	1		_aHadley, Tessa
245	1	0	_aMarried love and other stories _c/ Tessa Hadley.
260			_aLondon _b: Jonathan Cape _c, 2012.
300			_a232 p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aThese 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.
650		0	_aShort stories, English
942			_cMO
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