Accidents in the Home. The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Клэр и Хелли – школьные подруги, чьи жизни пошли совершенно разными путями. Клэр замужем, у нее трое маленьких детей, она сама печет хлеб и покупает одежду в благотворительном магазине. Тем временем Хелли – актриса, и плакаты с ее изображением расклеены на рекламных щитах по всему городу. Кажется, каждая из подруг завидует жизни другой... Невероятное совпадение сводит Клэр с человеком, с которым она когда-то, будучи подростком, занялась сексом на вечеринке. Теперь он новый парень Хелли. Эта должна была быть ничего не значащая встреча, но, похоже, она изменит жизнь Клэр... Книга Тессы Хэдли “Accidents in the Home. The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author” заинтересует тех читателей, кому по душе драматические произведения. Книга на английском языке. From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley's first novel now rejacketed for a whole new audience An improbable coincidence brings Clare back into contact with someone she once had sex with at a teenage party; complicatedly, he is now going out with her best friend, Helly. The encounter needn't have meant anything - it could just have been funny, or embarrassing - but it seems to have the power to shake up everything in Clare's life. Clare is married with three small children, she bakes her own bread and buys her clothes from the charity shop. Helly is an actress and has her golden curves pasted up on billboards ten foot high. And each of them seems to want what the other has. Clare's story is intertwined with other stories of her extended family. Her father has been married three times and left a trail of children. Accidents in the Home dips in and out of the lives of this complicated, close, fraught family, reaching out into the past for explanation and illumination as well as across the present. It is the debut of a quite formidable fictional talent.