Anne Tyler

That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with. Not many authors can write an ironic, funny, touching and perceptive novel about the...

A little gem. What else could I call this half length novel? (It’s only about 165 pages) As it says on the tin, the whole story happens within three days in June, the day before the wedding of the protagonist’s...

Hundreds of novels are set in New York, San Francisco, LA and so on, but how many novels are set in Baltimore? It might seem too matter-of-fact a city to inspire literary creations, but in fact one of America’s best...

If you ever wanted to get inside a marriage of two mismatched personalities, this is an excellent novel for that experience, in so far as one can ever get ‘inside’ someone else’ marriage. Tyler does an excellent job of somehow...

~ Redhead by the Side of the Road, by Anne Tyler ~ Micah Mortimer is such a realistic character that he might as well live next door. (As it happens, he lives not very far from me, in Baltimore). He’s...

~ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler ~ Anne Tyler’s writing often depicts relationships, particularly familial relationships, and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is another wonderful novel in this vein. The novel begins with Pearl, who at about...

~ Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler ~ This novel follows a charming chronology: we meet our protagonist, Willa Drake, in 1967, at 11 years of age, where her mum has just had a quarrel with her dad and left the...