# Sunstroke and Other Stories

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- Book: [Sunstroke and Other Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/tessa-hadley/sunstroke-and-other-stories) ([Sunstroke and Other Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tessa-hadley/sunstroke-and-other-stories.md))
- Authors: [Tessa Hadley](https://www.bookquiver.com/tessa-hadley)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-925-1
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2017-05-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.