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From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

About the Author

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.

Reviews

Her best novel
*Guardian*

Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer
*Observer*

A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise…superb
*New York Times Book Review*

The most impressive American novelist of her generation
*Sunday Telegraph*

A classic of contemporary Americana…variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving
*Los Angeles Times*

[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write.
*UK Press Syndication*

The best of Tyler's many excellent books
*Daily Telegraph THE 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME*

I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, but to be honest, anything by Tyler will do. She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a proper family saga filled with beady but compassionate takes on all of the unforgettable characters. Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that
*Good Housekeeping*

Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry
*Sunday Telegraph*

Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment
*New York Times Book Review*