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Reading Guide for Free Love by Tessa Hadley
With scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters’ inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Daring and sensual, Free Love is an enthralling, irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our lives.
1. The plot of Free Love appears to begin with the kiss between Phyllis Fischer and Nicholas Knight in the first chapter. As we read on, we are shown the events that led up to this moment. How far back can we trace those events? At what point do you think the plot of the novel actually starts?
2. This passage describes Phyllis shortly after the kiss occurs: “The thud of desire plummeting through her body like a weight, rearranged everything inside her, changed her beyond recognition; he’s my lover, she thought with finality. Phyllis was quick and adaptable, responsive: she took things with an outward grace and lightness. But she was also superstitious and stubborn. Once she had told herself a certain story it became fixed, and no reasoning or evidence to the contrary could shake it.”
What do you think this last line means, and how does it play out through the rest of the story?
3. If we could transpose Free Love into today’s twenty-first century setting, what aspects of the story would be the same? What would be different for the Fischer family?
4. Jean Knight’s and Phyllis Fischer’s lives take similar turns and yet, each woman makes very different choices. What do you think of this parallel?
5. Although Phyllis Fischer is the main character of the novel, the novel ends with Roger Fischer and Jean Knight. Did this surprise you? What does this suggest to you? How do you interpret the last line of the book?
“She squeezed his hand through the thick fabric of their gloves, promised him that she would think about it.”
6. In Tessa Hadley’s writing the secondary characters are fully formed, even though they may be lesser players in a story. If you could follow one character beyond this book’s last page, who would that be, and why?
7. Does Free Love remind you remind you of any other books? Which ones and why?
8. Free Love has a cinematic quality in its vivid and dramatic scenes; how do you think it would work as a film?
With scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters’ inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Daring and sensual, Free Love is an enthralling, irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our lives.
1. The plot of Free Love appears to begin with the kiss between Phyllis Fischer and Nicholas Knight in the first chapter. As we read on, we are shown the events that led up to this moment. How far back can we trace those events? At what point do you think the plot of the novel actually starts?
2. This passage describes Phyllis shortly after the kiss occurs: “The thud of desire plummeting through her body like a weight, rearranged everything inside her, changed her beyond recognition; he’s my lover, she thought with finality. Phyllis was quick and adaptable, responsive: she took things with an outward grace and lightness. But she was also superstitious and stubborn. Once she had told herself a certain story it became fixed, and no reasoning or evidence to the contrary could shake it.”
What do you think this last line means, and how does it play out through the rest of the story?
3. If we could transpose Free Love into today’s twenty-first century setting, what aspects of the story would be the same? What would be different for the Fischer family?
4. Jean Knight’s and Phyllis Fischer’s lives take similar turns and yet, each woman makes very different choices. What do you think of this parallel?
5. Although Phyllis Fischer is the main character of the novel, the novel ends with Roger Fischer and Jean Knight. Did this surprise you? What does this suggest to you? How do you interpret the last line of the book?
“She squeezed his hand through the thick fabric of their gloves, promised him that she would think about it.”
6. In Tessa Hadley’s writing the secondary characters are fully formed, even though they may be lesser players in a story. If you could follow one character beyond this book’s last page, who would that be, and why?
7. Does Free Love remind you remind you of any other books? Which ones and why?
8. Free Love has a cinematic quality in its vivid and dramatic scenes; how do you think it would work as a film?
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