Sunstroke and Other Stories

A Picador Paperback Original. Tessa Hadleys stories trace the currents of desire desperation and mischief that that lie hidden inside domestic relationships.. A mother hears her sons confession that hes cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with a professor and initiates an affair with a man who looks just like him. A boy on a seaside vacation realizes that a grown-up woman is pressing dangerously close.. In Tessa Hadleys Sunstroke and Other Stories everyone conspires to hold the loving and stable surface of family life together as old secrets and new appetites threaten to blow it apart.