The Master Bedroom Tessa Hadley by Tessa Hadley 9781446499917, 144649991X instant download after payment.

Tessa Hadleys intricate, graceful novel explores the tangled web of connections between parents and children, revealing how each generation replays the stories of the one that came before, in new and sometimes startling patterns.

"Hadley has a knack for portraying the dysfunctional, often stagnant lives of the infuriatingly repressed." -   Alexis Burling, The Washington Post

After more than twenty years in London, Kate Flynn has abandoned her career as an academic, rented her apartment in the city, and moved back to live with her mother in the grand old house beside a lake where she grew up. Bored and lonely, Kate meets a childhood friend, David Roberts, at the opera. David is married, but Kate finds herself falling for him against her better judgment.

“A chess game of slow-burn erotic maneuvers... [Hadley is] a lovely, subtly teasing writer…Hadley’s observations of the ebb and flow of female desire and frustration are reminiscent of Virginia Woolf, but she taps sensual undercurrents where Woolf wouldn’t have dipped her toe.”   -  The New York Times Book Review

At the same time, David's seventeen-year-old son is visiting Kate's house in secret, attracted by her eccentricity, her wit, and her shelves full of old books and music. Though she knows the risks, Kate cannot quite resist either man. As both father and son set about their parallel courtships, Tessa Hadley's intricate, graceful novel discovers the anxieties of adulthood and the hazards of refusing to grow up.

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction (2008)