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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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'It's High Time You Talked to a Professional About That One'

Charlotte looked nothing like her mother, but wasn't wholesome and substantial like philip either. Marline was happy working in that supermarket which smelled of onions and stale water leaked from the frozen food cabinet. She'd known right away not to put on her air hostess voice. There was more excitement in the shop than at the doctor's, shouting in the aisles, sudden illnesses and shop lifting. Even one or two local drug addics and once an actual armed robbery,. although only a small one, when a panicked, shrimpy looking man threatened them with a bread and took forty packs of bentonand hedges. All her teachers said she got as far as filling

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