The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers. French Braid follows one family s joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today.
When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.
All she wants is space and silence. No clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond.
But it turns out family life is impossible to escape - particularly when it s in your past. For Mercy it all begins in 1959, with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. It s the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations
Gorgeous, charming, profound, and written with such lightness of touch MARIAN KEYES
A perfect work of fiction MEG MASON
She is and always will be my favourite author LIANE MORIARTY
Exquisitely crafted, tender, hilarious, devastatingly precise, I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life RACHEL JOYCE
Anne Tyler really is the best... Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless GRAHAM NORTON
A faultless novel, effortlessly profound. I read it in two sittings, totally immersed VICTORIA HISLOP
About the Author
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.
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