No one does family like Anne Tyler does family -- sink into the funny, true, joy of her new novel
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, Clock Dance and Redhead by the Side
of the Road.
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.
Tyler's twentieth novel finds fresh fictional riches in imaginative
territory she has been exploring for half a century...
Atmospherically rendered, the passage of time has both entertaining
and heart-rending results. She has never written with more finesse,
vitality and acuteness
*Sunday Times, book of the year*
I love Tyler's writing... She writes so beautifully and with such
insight. Read her books and she can actually change your view,
change how you see the world
*Mail on Sunday*
Exquisite
*The Times*
Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and
impossible to duplicate
*Observer, Books That Made Our Year 2015*
The extraordinary thing about her writing is the extent to which
she makes one believe every word, deed and breath
*Guardian*
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