

French Braid
by Anne Tyler
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THE MAJOR NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST STORYTELLERS OF OUR TIME
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 is determined 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, whether that’s a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or 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.
‘Gorgeous, charming, profound, and written with such lightness of touch’ MARIAN KEYES
‘A perfect work of fiction’ MEG MASON
‘ French Braid is Anne Tyler at her surgical, spare best’ NIGELLA LAWSON
‘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
‘Such joyous immersion, I lost myself, and loved this superbly imperfect family’ TESSA HADLEY
‘A faultless novel, effortlessly profound. I read it in two sittings, totally immersed’ VICTORIA HISLOP
‘If Anne Tyler isn’t the best writer in the world, who is?’ BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN’S HOUR
** A 2022 Book to Look Forward To in The Times , Daily Mail , Financial Times , i , Irish Times , Scotsman , Good Housekeeping **
Details
French Braid
by Anne Tyler
ISBN
9781784744625
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Binding
Hardback
Publication date
March 24, 2022
Dimensions
24.0cm x 16.2cm x 2.6cm
Page count
256 pages