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.
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*
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