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'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' - Allison Pearson, Daily Mail
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.
Delicate, unpretentious and highly enjoyable
*Daily Telegraph*
Tyler writes skilfully, with a detached air and a precise eye for
detail
*New Statesman*
She writes with virtuosity, confidence and perfect insight and
compassion
*The Times*
Anne Tyler is brilliant
*New York Times Book Review*
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