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Tessa Hadley Reads “After the Funeral”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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A Doctor's Wife Can't Work in a Supermarket

The doctor was wounded by marline's doubt withdrew his warmth and stopped coming to see them. Charlotte began going out in the evenings with an anxious, important face to visit his lonely bedset and negotiate the next step with him. Sometimes she didn't come home until past midnight. One grey sunday morning in february, the doctor and marline agreed to a family walk in the recreation ground. The path ran alongside a row of mun e pines, astringently resinous, whose red bark hung down in strings.

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