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Clever Girl
  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099570523
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Clever Girl

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Paperback
15 Mar 2014
EBook
2 May 2013
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From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley’s 5th novel now re-jacketed for a whole new audience

Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother and rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse and dreams of a less ordinary life. When she meets Val, he seems to her to embody everything she longs for – glamour, ideas, excitement and the thrill of the unknown. But these things come at a price and one that Stella despite all her cleverness doesn’t realise until it is too late.
  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099570523
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley is the author of eight highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train, Clever Girl, The Past, Late in the Day and Free Love, and four collections of stories: Sunstroke, Married Love, Bad Dreams and After the Funeral. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016 and she has twice been awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, for 2018 and for 2024. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.
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Also by Tessa Hadley

Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Alone with a Book
The Party
After the Funeral
Free Love
Late in the Day
The Past
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