Tessa Hadley is an award winning author of eight novels, many short story collections and one of my personal favourite writers. In this conversation Tessa talks with me about the pleasures and irresponsibility of the short story, her first novella The Party, writing as a performance and the benefits of publishing for the first time in mid life.

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The Party - Tessa Hadley

Free Love - Tessa Hadley

Bad Dreams - Tessa Hadley

The Best Intentions - Ingmar Bergman

Going Home - Tom Lamont

Long Island - Colm Toibin

Parades End - Ford Maddox Ford

Writing Literary Fiction with Tessa Hadley - Curtis Brown Creative

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