As do most novels, Tessa Hadley’s latest, The Past, has to do with (yes) the past, yet the title feels like a misnomer. For the Crane family -- four adult siblings, along with their various children, almost-children, and romantic baggage -- the past is exactly what they’ve come to reckon with, and break from, at the outset of the novel. From their mother’s parents, they inherited a ramshackle home in the English countryside, which they’ve retreated to for family holidays over the years. ...
As do most novels, Tessa Hadley’s latest, The Past, has to do with (yes) the past, yet the title feels like a misnomer. For the Crane family -- four adult siblings, along with their various children, almost-children, and romantic baggage -- the past is exactly what they’ve come to reckon with, and break from, at the outset of the novel. From their mother’s parents, they inherited a ramshackle home in the English countryside, which they’ve retreated to for family holidays over the years. ...
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