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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it, secrets.

A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists, now available as an audiobook.

Critics Review

Her best novel
Guardian
Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer
Observer
A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise…superb
New York Times Book Review
The most impressive American novelist of her generation
Sunday Telegraph
A classic of contemporary Americana…variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving
Los Angeles Times
[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write.
UK Press Syndication
The best of Tyler's many excellent books
Daily Telegraph THE 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME
I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, but to be honest, anything by Tyler will do. She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a proper family saga filled with beady but compassionate takes on all of the unforgettable characters. Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that
Good Housekeeping
Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry
Sunday Telegraph
Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment
New York Times Book Review
Author Anne Tyler
Narrator Suzanne Toren
Duration 13 hours and 17 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473513235
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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