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French Braid
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Kimberly Farr
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 24 March 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today
When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.
Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won't allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond.
Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, from giving a child a ride to a painstaking Easter lunch, a fateful train journey to an unexpected homecoming.
And it all begins in 1959, with a family 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.
'If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR
© Anne Tyler 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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Such a perfect work of fiction, 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. We readers are so lucky a writer like Tyler exists
MEG MASON
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Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate
HANYA YANIGIHARA
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She is and always will be my favourite author
LIANE MORIARTY
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Anne Tyler really is the best . . . her sheer brilliance makes it all seem so effortless
GRAHAM NORTON
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One of my favourite writers
ALI SMITH
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Fans 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
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A new Anne Tyler novel is an island of certainty in a tumultuous world
Reasons To Be Cheerful in 2022, Daily Telegraph
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A queen of American literature
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The ever reliable and delightful Anne Tyler
The Year Ahead in Books, Scotsman
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Lushly imagined, psychologically intricate, virtually inhalable...Tyler balances gracefully between tenderness and piquant humor, her insights into human nature luminous
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Details
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- Narrator
- Kimberly Farr
- Duration
- 9 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 March 2022
- ISBN
- 9781473596979
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Family saga / generational saga fiction, Historical fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of todayWhen the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won't allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond.Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, from giving a child a ride to a painstaking Easter lunch, a fateful train journey to an unexpected homecoming.And it all begins in 1959, with a family 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.'If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR© Anne Tyler 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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