Books on Monday: The Master Bedroom
Tessa Hadley’s The Master Bedroom is one of those extraordinarily beautiful novels that defy easy criticism. Ms Hadley’s distinct grasp of the individual’s unique psychology approached the fullness of poetry while avoiding the florid and the opaque. With an almost painful immediacy, her characters recede into the dimness of lost friends even though the outlines of their predicament remains. I should be very happy to have had this novel read aloud to me.