A review by runkefer
Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley

3.0

This is not so much a novel as a linked story collection. 3 of the "chapters" appeared as stories in the Nee Yorker. It reads more like a memoir than a novel, jumping from life episode to life episode through time, from the time the main character Stella is a child until she's 50. The book is well written, but ultimately I didn't feel invested in the character, mainly because of the episodic nature of the book. It just didn't cohere for me.