{"product_id":"9781529949315","title":"The Party","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Hadley, Tessa\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 9 October 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 128 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 12 | 106g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exhilarating winter tale of two sisters drawn into a new life of risk, passion and possibility, from the Sunday Times bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Tessa Hadley is my favourite author’ KATE ATKINSON On a winter Saturday night in post-war Bristol, sisters Moira and Evelyn, on the cusp of adulthood, go to an art students’ party in a dockside pub; there they meet two men, Paul and Sinden, whose air of worldliness and sophistication both intrigues and repels them. Sinden calls a few days later to invite them over to the grand suburban mansion Paul shares with his brother and sister, and Moira accepts despite Evelyn’s misgivings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the night unfolds in this unfamiliar, glamorous new setting, the sisters learn things about themselves and each other that shock them, and release them into a new phase of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR* ‘Few writers give me such consistent pleasure’ ZADIE SMITH‘A glimmering tale of two sisters’ FT ‘Hadley’s extraordinary skill [is] making both surface life and deep interiors come fully alive’ COLM TÓIBÍN ‘Hadley recruits admirers with each book’ HILARY MANTEL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darling Reads","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55818392568132,"sku":"9781529949315","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/1265\/8244\/files\/9781529949315.jpg?v=1761060460","url":"https:\/\/darlingreadsbooks.com\/products\/9781529949315","provider":"Darling Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}