The London Train

This beautifully evoked fourth novel is a further example of her talents

Rachel Hore, Literary Review

Darkly elegant...Hadley writes with grace and intensity, moving from careful, beautiful delineation of character and place...to moments of haunting power. She is brilliant, too, at offering us different perspectives

Financial Times

Tessa Hadley is an understated writer whose concentration on the details of everyday life belies a breathtaking acuity and articulateness... She once again visualizes the monochrome mundanity of ordinary existence in glorious Technicolor... Hadley captures shades of almost imperceptible grey that the reader only recognizes after reading... Hadley shows, with dizzying aplomb, that the distinction between "literary" fiction and the best domestic fiction is spurious.

Leyla Sani, Independent

Serene style and carefully constructed scenes

Alex Clark, Times Literary Review

Hadley's shrewd observation gains in distinction with every book she writes

Independent

Hadley has crafted real excitement...The London Train snaps shut with an effective twist

Susanna Rustin, Guardian

Tessa Hadley is a writer whose antennae are almost indecently attuned to the interior static of private lives.

Emma Hagestadt, Independent

The London Train is an intelligent and gently manipulative story of human weakness and lies... Wicked but delightful

Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday

Hadley's writing is pin sharp

Rosemary Goring, Sunday Herald

This concise novel also offers a sharp portrait of modern Britain

Peter Parker, Sunday Times

Hadley is a writer whose antennae are almost indecently attuned to the interior static of private lives

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

Hadley offers first-class views on the psychological scenery of 21st-century Britain

Daily Telegraph

Excellent

Philip Hensher, Observer, Books of the Year

Few writers give me such consistent pleasure

Zadie Smith

She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today

Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie