Tessa Hadley: ‘Uneasy books are good in uneasy times’
The author on Anna Karenina, the brilliance of Anita Brookner and finally getting Nabokov My earliest reading memory I acquired from somewhere, in my more or less atheistic family, a Ladybird Book of the Lord’s Prayer, whose every page I can recover in all its lurid 1960s naturalism. “As they forgive us our trespasses against them …” The horrified boy leaves a hand mark on the wall his father has just painted. My favourite book growing up One of my favourites was E Nesbit’s The Wouldbegoods. The lives of those Edwardian children seemed as rich as a plum pudding, with their knickerbockers and…