Married Love: And Other Stories, (Paperback)

from oldblack

I'm not generally a big fan of short stories, because I think the genre doesn't have the opportunity to really develop characters well. But hats off to Ms Hadley for the job she's done here. I found nearly all of these stories interesting and even satisfying in some way. I liked the emphasis on r...

from Cariola

This is a collection of twelve interesting but somewhat gloomy stories that explore the human heart through various prisms. A nineteen announces to her family that she plans to marry her lover--a professor 45 years her senior. A family gathers in the country for the matriarch's 60th birthday. A g...

from whitreidtan

Short stories are very hard to get right, at least for this reader. They don't tend to be my favorite type of writing to read. While their length makes them ideal for reading in small bursts, especially nice for those of us who spend so much time in carpools or sitting at sports practices in whic...

from RandyMetcalfe

The twelve stories collected in Tessa Hadley's Married Love are carefully observed and, at times, subtle. They tend toward interiors. Lives of middle-class (or aspirationally middle-class) English women and, sometimes, men. Although the decades in which the stories take place vary across the 20th...

from Beamis12

These are very literary stories, and Hadley does a great job of noticing even the minutiae in the lives of her characters. She brings the readers attention to their surroundings and follows their lives longer than many short story writer do. Of course I had favorites and a few I could not relate ...