{"product_id":"clever-girl-a-novel-9780062270399","title":"Clever Girl: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eClever Girl is an indelible story of one womans life  unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era  moving from the 1960s to today  from one of Britains leading literary lightsTessa Hadleythe author of the New York Times Notable Books Married Love and The London Train. Like Alice Munro and Colm Tibin  Tessa Hadley brilliantly captures the beauty  innocence  and irony of ordinary livesan ability to transform the mundane into the sublime that elevates domestic fiction to literary art. Written with the celebrated precision  intensity  and complexity that have marked her previous works  Clever Girl is a powerful exploration of family relationships and class in modern life  witnessed through the experiences of an English woman named Stella. Unfolding in a series of snapshots  Tessa Hadleys moving novel follows Stella from the shallows of childhood  growing up with a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s  into the murky waters of middle age. Clever Girl is a story vivid in its immediacy and rich in dramaviolent deaths  failed affairs  broken dreams  missed chances. Yet it is Hadleys observations of everyday life  her keen skill at capturing the ways men and women think and feel and relate to one another  that dazzles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647858892853,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062270397","price":29.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062270399.jpg?v=1781698357","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/clever-girl-a-novel-9780062270399","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}