{"product_id":"the-past-9780062270429","title":"The Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \"supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e) turns her astute eye to a dramatic family reunion, where simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over three long, hot summer weeks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A novel so evocative of summer and adolescence that to read it is to reexperience the deep languor and longing of those days.\" -- Tayari Jones, \u003cem\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Exquisite. . . . For anyone who cherishes Anne Tyler and Alice Munro, the book offers similar deep pleasures.\" -- Ron Charles, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Windham Campbell Prize \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003cem\u003e-\u003c\/em\u003e A \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e Top 10 Book of the Year \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Best Fiction Book of the Year \u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editors' Choice \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree sisters and a brother, complete with children, a new wife, and an ex-boyfriend's son, descend on their grandparents' dilapidated old home in the Somerset countryside for a final summer holiday. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past--their mother took them there to live when she left their father--but now, they may have to sell it. And beneath the idyllic pastoral surface lie tensions. As the family's stories and silences intertwine over the course of three long, hot weeks, small disturbances build into familial crises, and a way of life--bourgeois, literate, ritualized, Anglican--winds down to its inevitable end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHadley, Tessa:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including \u003cem\u003eClever Girl\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Past, \u003c\/em\u003eas well as three short story collections, most recently \u003cem\u003eBad Dreams and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e; in 2016 she was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555935326482,"sku":"9780062270429","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52918658-2966-4205-99fd-55fb91af2052.jpg?v=1731745278","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-past-9780062270429","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}