Author: Hadley, Tessa
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 6 March 2014 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback / softback | 352 pages
171 x 130 x 22 | 250g
The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an ordinary life made extraordinary by the gifts of Tessa Hadley. Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother and rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse and dreams of a less ordinary life. When she meets Val, he seems to her to embody everything she longs for - glamour, ideas, excitement and the thrill of the unknown. But these things come at a price and one that Stella despite all her cleverness doesn't realise until it is too late.
'Tessa Hadley writes like a dream' Daily Mail