French Braid
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Redhead by the Side of the Road
$24.20
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2023
Summary
The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers.
French Braid follows one family’s joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today.
When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice. All she wants is space and silence. No clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. But it turns out family life is impossible to escape - particularly when it’s in your past. For Mercy it all begins in 1959,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529115475 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529115477 |
| Author: | Anne Tyler |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 129mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Such a perfect work of fiction, you want to turn it over like a tapestry to see how it is done; how Tyler can sew gentle humour into a truly heart-wrenching story, and twist all of life’s hurts into a family saga that is ultimately life-affirming, and a brisk and thrilling read. We readers are so lucky a writer like Tyler exists – MEG MASON
Tyler’s sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate – HANYA YANIGIHARA
She is and always will be my favourite author – LIANE MORIARTY
Anne Tyler really is the best … her sheer brilliance makes it all seem so effortless – GRAHAM NORTON
One of my favourite writers – ALI SMITH
Fans of Anne Tyler will be delighted by French Braid, a family saga that takes us from the 1950s to the present * Must-Read Books 2022, Daily Mail *
A new Anne Tyler novel is an island of certainty in a tumultuous world * Reasons To Be Cheerful in 2022, Daily Telegraph *
A queen of American literature * i newspaper *
The ever reliable and delightful Anne Tyler * The Year Ahead in Books, Scotsman *
Lushly imagined, psychologically intricate, virtually inhalable…Tyler balances gracefully between tenderness and piquant humor, her insights into human nature luminous * Booklist *
Anne Tyler
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 Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; 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. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
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