Accidents in the Home

The London Train

Author: Tessa Hadley

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 c….Read More

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