

Free Love
A Novel
Author: Tessa Hadley
Narrator: Abigail Thaw
Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/01/2022
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Family Life
Author: Tessa Hadley
Narrator: Abigail Thaw
Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/01/2022
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Family Life
Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including Clever Girl and The Past, as well as three short story collections, most recently Bad Dreams and Other Stories, which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker; in 2016 she was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. She lives in London.
It’s 1967 and we are in the leafy suburbs in the home of the Fischers where Free Love, Protest and rejecting the’Old Guard’ has not yet showed up in any way shape or form. Roger Fischer works at the Foreign Office, wife Phyllis is a typical 50’s/60’s housewife and they have two children Colette, a t......more
Free Love by Tessa Hadley is set in 1967 London and our main character – Phyllis Fischer, appears to be a happily married. She's a mother of two and her husband, Roger, is a decent diligent Government employee. They live in a ‘well-to-do’ area of London and seem to be ‘living the life.’ One evening a......more
Towards the end of the swinging sixties, London housewife Phyllis Fischer doesn’t realise she’s unhappy with her lot until the young son of a family friend comes around for dinner one night. Phyllis loves entertaining and but Nicky is something of an awkward guest, arriving late and seeming to have......more
Tessa Hadley’s new novel, “Free Love,” is smartly situated within the fusion of defiance and regret, liberation and attachment. Along the way, Hadley alludes to Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” and Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique,” but her story cuts its own path. In fact, “Free Love” begins with a d......more
There are novels by Tessa Hadley which have made my top ten books of the year, but sadly I don't think this is going to be one of them. The writing, as ever, is wonderful. Hadley has such a wonderful way of putting me right in the location she's writing about. The novel starts with the sound of chil......more