The London Train

"Hadleyis a lovely, subtly teasing writer." —*New York Times Book Review*

**Long-listed forthe Orange Prize**Twolives, stretched between two cities, converge in a chance meeting withimmediate and far-reaching consequences in this compelling, sophisticated talefrom acclaimed *New Yorker* writer Tessa Hadley, author of *Accidents inthe Home* and *The Master Bedroom*. As father struggles to reestablisha relationship with his estranged daughter in London, surrendering himself toan underground life of illegal squats and counterculture friendships, a wifedecides she must flee her suffocating marriage to return to Wales, where inCardiff she may rediscover the passions that once fueled her life. Embracingchange and facing loss, in a story evocative of Alice Munro’s *Runaway *andJulia Glass’ *I See You Everywhere*, Hadley’s powerful charactersilluminate the furthest reaches of love, hope, and determination.