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2 May 2013

Reviewed: Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley

A female Quixote.

By Claire Lowdon

Clever Girl
Tessa Hadley
Jonathan Cape, 320pp, £16.99

Tessa Hadley is a clever writer who likes to play with form. Like Amish quilts, her novels are made up of homespun, domestic material, delicately worked over. Then you step back and see the bold structural decisions behind their composition.

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