'Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate' HANYA YANIGIHARA She writes such absorbing, wise, tender books, devastatingly acute about human nature. 'Tyler writes with an apparent effortlessness which conceals great art' HELEN DUNMORE 'She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE MORIARTY Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that form s the Garretts' family life over the decades, whether that's a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming. When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice. 'If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR
I read it in two sittings, totally immersed' VICTORIA HISLOP 'A faultless novel, effortlessly profound. 'Such joyous immersion, I lost myself, and loved this superbly imperfect family' TESSA HADLEY 'Exquisitely crafted, tender, hilarious, devastatingly precise, I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life' RACHEL JOYCE It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, whether that's a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming.Īnd it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author - a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today
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