French Braid From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Redhead by the Side of the Road
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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 <b>a perfect work of fiction</b>, 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. <b>We readers are so lucky a writer like Tyler exists </b>
- MEG MASON,
Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, <b>instantly recognisable</b> and <b>impossible to duplicate</b>
- HANYA YANIGIHARA,
She is and always will be my <b>favourite author</b>
- LIANE MORIARTY,
Anne Tyler really is<b> the best</b> . . . her <b>sheer brilliance</b> makes it all seem <b>so effortless</b>
- GRAHAM NORTON,
One of my<b> favourite writers</b>
- ALI SMITH,
<b>Fans of Anne Tyler will be delighted by <i>French Braid</i>,</b> a family saga that takes us from the 1950s to the present
Must-Read Books 2022, Daily Mail
A new Anne Tyler novel is a<b>n island of certainty in a tumultuous world</b>
Reasons To Be Cheerful in 2022, Daily Telegraph
A <b>queen of American literature</b>
i newspaper
The ever <b>reliable and delightful</b> 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
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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.