# The Master Bedroom

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- Book: [The Master Bedroom](https://www.bookquiver.com/tessa-hadley/the-master-bedroom) ([The Master Bedroom.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tessa-hadley/the-master-bedroom.md))
- Authors: [Tessa Hadley](https://www.bookquiver.com/tessa-hadley)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-926-8
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2017-02-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. When Kate meets David Roberts, a friend from the old days, she begins to obsess about him: she knows it's because she's bored and hasn't got anything else to do, but she can't stop. Adapting to a new way of life, the connections Kate forges in her new home are to have painful consequences, as the past begins to cast its long shadow over the present...