A brilliant writer?funny, tragic, wise -- Lynne Truss ? IndependentAnne Tyler is a formidably skilful story-teller, with every narrative trick at her effortless command ? Daily TelegraphTyler's compelling, moving and often amusing tale is the story of any marriage - every page brings a smile of recognition to the reader ? Daily MailThe meanings of this beautifully written novel reach far wider than Baltimore. I shed a tear as I finished the Antons' story ? Evening StandardTyler is an exquisite chronicler of the everyday ? Observer

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 and Redhead by the Side of the Road. 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.