Barnaby Gaitlin hasn't yet managed to make much of himself. Perhaps working for a rackety bunch of old folks will help him find his way.
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and many other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Saint Maybe, Ladder of Years, A Patchwork Planet, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America and The Beginner's Goodbye. In 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English' and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Vinegar Girl, is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew.
Tyler is a masterly writer whose love stories make you think as
well as feel.
I was bowled over...I finished the book wishing it had been twice
as long
I can think of no other writer whose novels I look forward to with
such gleeful anticipation. A Patchwork Planet is her fourteenth
book, but were it for fortieth, it would not be enough for me... A
delight from beginning to end
*Observer*
Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically
alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate... [A Patchwork
Planet] is charming, readable, and more full of touching and humane
observations than many other novels you will read this year
*Guardian*
A Patchwork Planet is thoroughly enjoyable...from this most
responsive novel
*Sunday Times*
Tyler's best book yet - which must make it pretty near
perfection
*The Times*
Tyler is a masterly writer whose love stories make you think as
well as feel.
I was bowled over...I finished the book wishing it had been twice
as long
I can think of no other writer whose novels I look forward to with
such gleeful anticipation. A Patchwork Planet is her
fourteenth book, but were it for fortieth, it would not be enough
for me... A delight from beginning to end * Observer *
Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically
alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate... [A Patchwork
Planet] is charming, readable, and more full of touching and
humane observations than many other novels you will read this year
* Guardian *
A Patchwork Planet is thoroughly enjoyable...from this most
responsive novel * Sunday Times *
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