The “measured, perfectly controlled” (Boston Globe) Tessa Hadley is the author of four acclaimed novels, including the “rich, absorbing” (Vanity Fair) Clever Girl; Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award; Everything Will Be All Right; and The London Train, a New York Times Notable Book. Hadley’s two short-story collections, Sunstroke and Married Love, were New York Times Notable Books as well. Her work also regularly appears in The New Yorker. In The Past, simmering secrets and long-subsumed tensions boil to the surface during a sweltering three-week-long family reunion.