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Clever Girl is an indelible story of one woman's life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain's leading literary lights-Tessa Hadley-the author of the New York Times Notable Books Married Love and The London Train. Like Alice Munro and Colm Tóibin, Tessa Hadley brilliantly captures the beauty, innocence, and irony of ordinary lives-an ability to transform the...
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Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
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2022.
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1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. When the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in...
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Paul, struggling with the recent death of his mother, finds Pia, his daughter from his first marriage, pregnant and living illegally in a council flat with a pair of Polish siblings in London, and after abandoning his second wife and their children to experience Pia's exciting and dangerous life, he rides a train where he crosses paths with Cora, a woman escaping from her marriage to her Civil Service husband.
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