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....

A brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family\"s foibles, from the 1950s right up to today. When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won\"t allow any family clutter....

A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: her mother’s disappearance when she was just a child, being proposed to at an airport at the age of twenty-one, the accident that would leave her a widow in her fo...

Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler\"s funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an outsider. Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit....

Discover a beautiful story of what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne Tyler How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?...

One warm summer\"s day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether....

\"Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age\" Daily Mail Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl....

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother\"s grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste....

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life\"s earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour....

From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. A Patchwork Planet is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler\"s books in striking new backlist style Barnaby Gailtin has less in life than he once had....

A perfect love story for imperfect people. Micah Mortimer measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is in a long-term relationship with his woman friend Cassia, but they live apart. His carefully calibrated life is regular, steady, balanced....

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It was love at first sight. For their dogs.Cody Jones didn't expect to ever return to Applebottom, planning a long life of military service and world travel.But a devastating injury in Iraq narrows his options, so he begrudgingly helps his mother expand her doggy bakery until he figures out what’s next.And in walks Melody Hopkins....

Kate Battista is stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister Bunny? Dr Battista has other problems. His brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, his new scientific breakthrough will fall through......

Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler’s work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish. . . . ....