Everything Will Be All Right

“A warm novel that follows the contours of four generations of a family and, in the end, shows us ourselves” from the author of Accidents in the Home (Gretchen Gurujal, Associated Press).

When Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Vera and her sister Lil aren’t at all alike. Vera, a teacher, has unquestioning belief in the powers of education and reason; Lil puts her faith in seances. Joyce is determined to be different: she falls in love with art (and her art teacher). Spanning five decades of extraordinary change in women’s lives, Tessa Hadley’s Everything Will Be All Right explores the tangled history of one family and the disasters, hopes, compromises, and ambitions of successive generations.

“Her gift as a writer is so considerable that her characters’ revelations and predicaments linger in the mind long after her narrative has darted off in other directions.” ―Alice Traux, The New York Times Book Review

“This may sound formulaic, the stuff of bad women’s magazines, but in author Tessa Hadley’s hands it’s anything but.” ―Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World

“Complex, intelligent . . . expertly captures the texture of daily existence and the struggle of three memorable women to make their way in the world.” ―Publishers Weekly