Tessa Hadley: "I am interested in strong women who are built through a man"

British novelist Tessa Hadley at FIL Guadalajara in 2015.Berenice Bautista / AP

He did not throw in the towel, and success came.

At 46 he managed to publish his first novel, but he had been trying and failing for more than 10 years.

The fame of the British Tessa Hadley (Bristol 63 years) has been late, but in recent years critics and readers have celebrated her books, which have also been enthusiastically praised by fellow writers such as Colm Tóibín and Zadie Smith.

“If it had happened the other way around and I had succeeded as a young man it would have gone to my head and I would have had a crazy life.

Instead, as I get older I get this wonderful satisfaction ”, ...

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