{"product_id":"free-love-a-novel-isbn-9780063137776","title":"Free Love: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Exquisite.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e• \u003cstrong\u003e\"Brilliantly observed.”\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e, Pick of the Week\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate.” — Hilary Mantel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLate in the Day \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Past\u003c\/em\u003e comes a compulsive new novel about one woman’s sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family’s upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters’ inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Daring and sensual, \u003cem\u003eFree Love\u003c\/em\u003e is an irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our selves – a novel that showcases Hadley’s unrivaled ability to “put on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own” (Lily King, author of \u003cem\u003eEuphoria\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“[A] brilliantly observed novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople, Pick of the Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFree Love\u003c\/em\u003e is beautifully structured and brilliantly paced. It displays Tessa Hadley's extraordinary skill at making both surface life and deep interiors come fully alive. Phyllis Fischer's quest for love and escape is created with drama and excitement, but also with slow care and real delicacy and sympathy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eColm Tóibín\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Free Love\u003c\/em\u003e is a perfect example of the Tessa Hadley problem: her books are so easy on the eye, such a joy to read, it’s possible to forget how artful, profound and subtle they are–and what a great writer she is. \"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeoff Dyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Every book Tessa Hadley writes makes her readers look forward keenly to the next. \u003cem\u003eFree Love\u003c\/em\u003e is a beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In keen, lush prose, Hadley conveys the many ways her characters delude themselves amid fraught relationships between parents and children as well as between lovers. The result is sumptuous and surprising.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Think \u003cem\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/em\u003e told from Mrs. Robinson’s point of view…. Hadley’s indelible portrait of a woman defying conventions in pursuit of personal fulfillment flawlessly captures a signature time with timeless sensitivity and passion.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A tragicomic exploration of how one woman’s erotic awakening revolutionizes her sense of who she is, what she must do and what that will cost.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRon Charles, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hadley’s poignant drawing together of a situation that ultimately becomes ‘as fatally twisted as a Greek drama’ shows a writer with boundless compassion. Yet again, she offers insightful and sensitive understanding of the quiet compromises people make to survive in a deeply compromised world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A superb portraitist, rendering people with the tiniest of details . . . [and]  a sumptuous stylist, Hadley is a writer for whom language trumps all else. Any publication of hers, whether of short or long fiction, is cause for celebration for the pure pleasure of the prose.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A deceptively expansive novel, filled with idiosyncratic characters and a distinctive flavor of the times. . . . A domestic novel of manners, erotic abandon, and cultural change, \u003cem\u003eFree Love \u003c\/em\u003eis as eclectic and alive as the time it captures.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR's Fresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tessa Hadley has few rivals in portraying the dynamics of families and the intricate weave of emotional affiliations among members. She is a genius at capturing fugitive thoughts and memories, the propulsive energy of desire, and the provisional reasoning that constitute inner being. . . . \u003cem\u003eFree Love \u003c\/em\u003eis a penetrating, extraordinarily subtle novel about an unsubtle era.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Exquisite and sensuous prose. . . The stories of break and repair in this novel are wonderfully unpredictable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hadley’s arresting novel offers a backward glance that helps show us a way forward” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFree Love \u003c\/em\u003eis a fresh, moving evocation of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889620381925,"sku":"NP9780063137776","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063137776.jpg?v=1730231616","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/free-love-a-novel-isbn-9780063137776","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}