An Evening with Tessa Hadley in Cambridge

Join renowned author Tessa Hadley as she celebrates the paperback release of The Party – an unforgettable story about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart’s hidden desires. She will be in conversation with Tory Young.

Book signing to follow.

Tessa Hadley is the author of eight 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 LondonTrain, Clever Girl, The Past, Late in the Day, Free Love and four collections of stories, Sunstroke, Married Love, Bad Dreams and After the Funeral. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016,The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, andBad Dreamswon the 2018 Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.

The Party is an irresistible novella which tells thestory of two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart’s hidden desires.

Tory Young is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, where she teaches and publishes on 20-21st-century literature. In 2021, she began a collaboration with the National Centre for Writing, developing an ongoing series of life-writing seminars for participants aged 70+ called A Life Written. Tory is currently editing a collection of essays about female friendship, and writing about 21st-century novels in which women voluntarily retreat to bed for a year.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

22 Sidney St, 22 Sidney Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom