Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly praised novels, Accidents in the Home, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train, Clever Girl and The Past. She is also the author of two collections of stories, Sunstroke and Married Love. 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. She cannot remember the first time she read Jane Eyre, but it must have gone in deep, and it’s never stopped working. And whenever she’s cleaning she remembers Jane and Hannah getting Moor House ready for Christmas.