Tessa Hadley: Everyday Turmoil 

The lauded novelist of Free Love and Late in the Day returns to the Festival to discuss her latest collection, After the Funeral. These dazzling stories demonstrate Hadley’s skill at depicting and excoriating the travails of everyday life, where seemingly insignificant moments result in major consequences, while fleetingly laying bare the underlying conflicts that govern our lives and relationships. In conversation with Lennie Goodings.

Categories: Family, Fiction, Friendship

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Family Dynamics

This strand draws together perspectives on family and relationships, inspired by Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The World: A History of Humanity told through the connecting thread of family. From moving depictions of lost siblings to a stunning new work by Octavia Bright which weaves the tale of recovery from alcohol addiction with the story of her father’s developing Alzheimer’s, this strand examines the relationships that make us: functional or otherwise…