Feb 11, 2015
THE PAST - Tessa Hadley
In her new novel, The Past, three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents’ old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past - their mother took them there...

THE PAST - Tessa Hadley

In her new novel, The Past, three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents’ old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past - their mother took them there when she left their father - but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions.

The jacket for this enthralling story of family tensions reproduces two photographs from the series Interior by the Danish photography-based visual artist, Trine Søndergaard. Her work is striking in its precision and imbued with intense emotion which we believe complements the timbre of Tessa Hadley’s nuanced and beautifully-crafted writing.

More of Trine Søndergaard’s work can be seen at trinesondergaard.com, and in her book Stasis published by Hatje Cantz.

The Past will be published by Jonathan Cape in September this year.

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