From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author – now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career – comes a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life.
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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author – now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career – comes a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life.
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‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon ...’This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer’s day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century – four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home…
Critic Reviews
'One of my favourite authors.' -- Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Big Little Lies
'A new novel from Tyler is always a treat and this is her best in years.' -- The Mail on Sunday
'One of her very best.' -- The Sunday Times
'Exquisite.' -- The Times
'Glorious.' -- The Independent
About the Author
Anne Tyler is an American novelist born on October 25, 1941, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While in college, she studied with writer Reynolds Price. She has written almost two dozen novels since 1964. Perhaps her best known novel was The Accidental Tourist (1985), which was made into a movie in 1988 starring William Hurt and Geena Davis. Tyler has won numerous awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Kimberly Farr has appeared on Broadway, at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons and the American Place Theatre. She created the role of Eve in Arthur Miller's first and only musical, Up from Paradise, which was directed by the playwright. She also appeared in the Broadway production of The Lady from the Sea. Kimberly’s television credits include a guest-starring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation and a season on her own series, Live-In.
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