{"product_id":"9780099499251","title":"Sunstroke and Other Stories","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Tessa Hadley\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 January 2008 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 160 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 129 x 10mm | 118g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover this brooding collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest writers. A world where everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'She is the writer we didn't know we were waiting for, until she arrived' Anne Enright, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tessa Hadley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58288505323845,"sku":"9780099499251","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780099499251.jpg?v=1781601243","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780099499251","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}