Searching For Caleb

A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our timeDiscover Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's deeply personal American historical epic.Duncan Peck is a restless man, always on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912 never to be seen again. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots, to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one...ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson

“Family sagas have such an endless appeal that whenever one meets a really good one, like Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb , one wonders why anyone bothers to write a different form of novel”

Family sagas have such an endless appeal that whenever one meets a really good one, like Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb, one wonders why anyone bothers to write a different form of novel
Anne Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredicability of seemingly everyday lives Sunday Telegraph
Strange and enchanting The Times

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.

From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and The Accidental Tourist Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, Searching for Caleb is a moving quest for a family's deepest roots - and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and rebellion. 'Family sagas have such an endless appeal that whenever one meets a really good one, like Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb , one wonders why anybody bothers to write a different form of novel' Auberon Waugh 'Anne Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredictability of seemingly everyday lives' Sunday Telegraph

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