Author Reading: Tessa Hadley
About This Event
Register to hear celebrated author Tessa Hadley read from Alone with a Book (2026) and After the Funeral (2023).
Book sales, a signing, and a reception will follow the program.
Tessa Hadley is the author of eight highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train, Clever Girl, The Past, Late in the Day, and Free Love, and four collections of stories: Sunstroke, Married Love, Bad Dreams, and After the Funeral. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016, and she has twice been awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, for 2018 and for 2024. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker.
Reception made possible by Central Market.
Please have your reservation confirmation ready upon entering. A reservation does not guarantee a seat. Line forms upon arrival of the first patron, and doors open 30 minutes before the event begins. No food or beverages are allowed inside our theater or gallery space.
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