A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and
grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include
Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner
at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back
When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage,
Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl
and Clock Dance.
In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in
1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the
greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the
Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool
of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was
shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man
Booker Prize.
If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is? -- Jane
Garvey * BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour *
One of our greatest living fiction writers and if I was in charge,
she'd have a Nobel by now -- Julie Myerson * Observer *
Brims with the qualities that have brought her legions of fans and
high critical acclaim. Characters pulse with lifelikeness. The tone
flickers between humorous relish and sardonic shrewdness. Dialogue
crackles with authenticity. Beneath it all is an insistence that
it's never too soon to recognise how quickly life can speed by and
never too late to make vitalising changes -- Peter Kemp * Sunday
Times *
How does she do it? Her style is deceptively simple. Even though
she performs narrative cartwheels that would lead other novelists
to be praised as experimental... she does it with such ease that it
seems closer to life than to art. it is almost as though we are
there to witness time passing, and people changing -- Craig Brown *
Mail on Sunday *
A writer sharp-eyed as a butcher-bird, skewering complacency... an
immensely funny writer... a quiet writer, in that much of her skill
goes toward the excision of anything that reminds the reader they
are reading -- Patrick Gale * Sunday Telegraph *
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