Bad Dreams and Other Stories

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The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day.**WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE**Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party.
In these gripping and unsettling stories, the ordinary is made extraordinary and the real things that happen to people turn out to be every bit as mysterious as their dreams.
‘These well-turned, exceptionally nuanced pieces are solidly evocative of place, period…and sensory detail’ Sunday Times‘Few writers give me such consistent pleasure’ Zadie Smith Praise for BAD DREAMS AND OTHER STORIES:“These well-turned, exceptionally nuanced pieces are solidly evocative of place, period…and sensory detail.’ Sunday Times‘Few writers give me such consistent pleasure.’ Zadie Smith Tessa Hadley is the author of six 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 and The Past, and three collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love and Bad Dreams. The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and Bad Dreams won the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She lives in London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker and other magazines. GB

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