Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page. Ladder of Years ruefully contemplates the unhaltable passage of time. But, scintillating with joie de vivre, it also offers an intensely appealing way of passing it
Sunday Times

Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page. Ladder of Years ruefully contemplates the unhaltable passage of time. But, scintillating with joie de vivre, it also offers an intensely appealing way of passing it
Sunday Times

Anne Tyler's novels have three qualities that make them special: they are funny, they are sad, they are intelligent
Nick Hornby,

Anne Tyler's novels have three qualities that make them special: they are funny, they are sad, they are intelligent
Nick Hornby,

Dialogue top-rate, people alive to their fingertips, places as real as next door - you don't get a finer comedy of manners than this
Mail on Sunday

Dialogue top-rate, people alive to their fingertips, places as real as next door - you don't get a finer comedy of manners than this
Mail on Sunday

Her best book yet
Roddy Doyle,

Her best book yet
Roddy Doyle,