Everything Will Be All Right [Import] [Hardcover]

TESSA HADLEY (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 436 pages
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE (2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224071742
• ISBN-13: 978-0224071741
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,365,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the great writers of our time, December 18, 2003

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This review is from: Everything Will Be All Right: A Novel (Hardcover)

Tessa Hadley is a truly great writer, of the Alice Munro/William Trevor tradition, but with a slightly more modern sensibility. It's too bad not more people seem to have heard of her (she has published a good number of excellent stories in the New Yorker) but my guess is that will change over time. If you like intelligent women's fiction, read this author!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars compelling characterizations, February 13, 2005

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Myfanwy Collins "Myfanwy" (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everything Will Be All Right: A Novel (Hardcover)

Tessa Hadley's Everything Will Be All Right is a lovely and compelling book. The narrative spans several decades in the lives of one family-and more specifically, in the lives of the women of the family. Three of the women in particular-Aunt Vera, the groundbreaking teacher; Joyce, the would-be artist; and Zoe, the brilliant scholar-lead us on the journey from post-WWII England to present. What we learn is that as the world around them changes at ever increasing speed, this family stays the same, particularly in their eventual acceptance of each other and in their gravitation to the the center--the women.

Hadley's writing is clear and often beautiful without being over the top, but the mastery of this novel is her ability to create and maintain characters. They simply live and breathe and stay in the room with the reader long after the book is finished. I was taken with this book from first word to last and would recommend it without reservation.

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous writing, insight. Don't want it to end., March 7, 2011

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Dorothy Terrell - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Everything Will Be All Right: A Novel (Paperback)

I first read a story by Tessa Hadley in The New Yorker, and was so struck by her
perfect descriptions of states of mind that I quickly ordered several more works by
her. The best, which startles me with its articulation of subtle emotional states and events -
the birth of a first child, for instances - Everything Will Be All Right -- is so compelling that
I don't want it to end.