The Party

Few writers give me such consistent pleasure

Zadie Smith, author White Teeth

Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book

Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall

She is one of the best fiction writers writing today

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Purple Hibiscus

The writer we didn’t know we were waiting for, until she arrived

Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren

Something small but perfectly formed will always do well as Christmas draws near – ask Claire Keegan – and Tessa Hadley’s novella The Party looks just the ticket.

Anthony Cummins, Observer

[An] exquisite work from one of our finest writers

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The Party is a coming-of-age story humming with all the tightly packed resonances of a poem… Tessa Hadley is one of our finest chroniclers, and this novella is a glimmering, sensuous addition to her supremely elegant oeuvre

Financial Times

The novelist and short story writer Tessa Hadley is alternately beloved and teased for her focus on British middle-class life. But she does it so well… Hadley’s power is in the details

Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*

There is no-one who writes better about middle-class life in 20th- and 21st-century Britain than Tessa Hadley

Evening Standard

Though the book is short…Hadley’s touch [is] delicate as ever

Guardian

Hadley’s engaging new novella… [is a] deft tale of risk and possibility…teetering on the line between disaster and self-discovery…[told] with great and practiced skill

Times Literary Supplement