A Picador Paperback Original Tessa Hadley's stories trace the currents of desire, desperation, and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships. A mother hears her son's confession that he's cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close. In Tessa Hadley's Sunstroke and Other Stories , everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together, as old secrets and new appetites threaten to blow it apart. “Miraculous . . . Deft and resonant, [these stories] encapsulate moments of hope and humiliation in a kind of shorthand of different lives lived. Hadley never fails to surprise.” ― The New York Times Book Review “Tessa Hadley's gift as a writer is so considerable that her characters' revelations and predicaments linger in the mind long after her narrative has darted off in other directions.” ― Alice Traux, The New York Times Book Review “A warm novel that follows the contours of four generations of a family and, in the end, shows us ourselves.” ― Associated Press on Everything Will Be All Right “Marvelously intricate . . . Hadley's intelligence puts her in the company of Carol Shields and Doris Lessing.” ― The Boston Globe on Accidents in the Home Tessa Hadley teaches literature and creative writing at Bath Spa University College. Her first novel, Accidents in the Home , which was excerpted in The New Yorker , was longlisted for The Guardian's First Book Award. She lives in Cardiff, Wales.