Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate HANYA YANIGIHARA The ever reliable and delightful Anne Tyler The Year Ahead in Books, ScotsmanĪ new Anne Tyler novel is a n island of certainty in a tumultuous world Reasons To Be Cheerful in 2022, Daily Telegraph her sheer brilliance makes it all seem so effortless GRAHAM NORTONĪ queen of American literature i newspaperįans of Anne Tyler will be delighted by French Braid, a family saga that takes us from the 1950s to the present Must-Read Books 2022, Daily Mail She is and always will be my favourite author LIANE MORIARTYĪnne Tyler really is the best. I read it in two sittings, totally immersed' VICTORIA HISLOP Read more 'A faultless novel, effortlessly profound. Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless' GRAHAM NORTON '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 'She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE MORIARTY 'Gorgeous, charming, profound, and written with such lightness of touch' MARIAN KEYES It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations For Mercy it all begins in 1959, with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. Not even their cat, Desmond.īut it turns out family life is impossible to escape - particularly when it's in your past. When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.Īll she wants is space and silence. The glorious Sunday Times bestseller follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today French Braid follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today. The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers.

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