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The Past : a Novel by Tessa Hadley is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A Mesmerizing Novel About Family And The Modern World Encroaching Upon The Old, From One Of Britain's Finest Contemporary Novelists. Three Adult Sisters And Their Brother Meet Up At Their Grandparents' Country Home For Their Annual Family Holiday--three Long, Hot Summer Weeks. The Beloved But Crumbling House Is Full Of Memories Of Their Childhood--of When Their Mother Took Them To Stay With Her Parents When She Left Their Father--but This Could Be Their Last Summer In The House, Now They May Have To Sell It. And Under The Idyllic Pastoral Surface, There Are Tensions. Alice Has Brought With Her Kasim, The 20-year-old Son Of Her Ex-boyfriend, And He Makes Plans To Seduce The Quiet Molly, Roland's 16-year-old Daughter. Fran's Young Children Uncover An Ugly Secret In A Ruined Cottage In The Woods, And Observe The Growing Flirtation. Passion Erupts Where It's Least Expected, Blasting The Quiet Self-possession Of Harriet, The Eldest Sister. Roland Has Come With His New (third) Wife, Whom His Sisters Don't Like...or Do They? A Way Of Life--bourgeois, Literate, Ritualized, Anglican--winds Down To Its Inevitable End: Which Is A Loss, And A Release. With Uncanny Precision And Extraordinary S

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Author

Tessa Hadley

Publisher

Random House of Canada

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781473511095

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.5 / 5 (2,245 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14