Brought to you by Penguin. The happily ever after is only part of the story… A funny, touching, hopeful gem about love, marriage and second chances It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting to stay for the festivities. He doesn’t even have a suit. Instead, he’s brought memories, a shared sense of humour – and a cat looking for a new home. Just as Gail is wondering what’s next, their daughter Debbie discovers her groom has been keeping a secret… As the big day dawns, the exes just can’t agree on what’s best for Debbie. Gail is seriously worried, while Max seems more concerned with whether to opt for the salmon or prime rib at the reception, if they make it that far. The day after the wedding, Gail and Max prepare to go their separate ways again. But all the questions about the future of the happy couple have stirred up the past for Gail. Because ‘happy’ takes many forms, and sometimes the younger generation has much to teach the older about secrets, acceptance and taking the rough with the smooth. ‘A joy to read in a single relaxing afternoon’ JACQUELINE WILSON 'Razor sharp on family, love and marriage' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Sublimely written and beautifully observed' - JOANNE FINNEY, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING © Anne Tyler 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Three Days in June

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

French Braid

Making relationships and Marriages work is a twenty- four job, especially, when letting go seem easier than to fix what is broken. There are too many influences from social media to television that enable people to divorce or break up, making the smallest thing to overcome the hardest to fix. If you are having relationship or marriage problems, or want to detect small problems before they grow, you need this book. Each morning you are blessed to see; you need to be thinking about how you can love your wife, husband or lover a little more than yesterday. In this book, it will help you swallow your pride if you need to forgive, encourage you to love more if you feel ignored or apprehensive, or if you need to build a stronger foundation so you stay in love and committed. In order to make your relationships or marriages strong, first, you need to get rid of the things that poison them, and this book will show you how. ARE YOU READY?

Have Marriage and Relationship Problems?: Time to Change the Things that Poison Our Love

Brought to you by Penguin. For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she never expected, as a young bank robber takes her hostage, and they head south for Florida in a stolen car. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD ‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty ‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve ‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike ‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty

Earthly Possessions

Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, married to Ira and with two children. Her eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested one hot summer day. Maggie and Ira drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of the husband of Serena, Maggie's childhood friend. During the course of the journey, with its several unexpected detours - into the lives of old friends and grown children - Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage: the expectations; the disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; the way that wife and husband can fall in love all over again; the way that everything - and nothing - changes. A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists, now available as an audiobook.

Breathing Lessons

Yhdysvaltain suosituimpiin kirjailijoihin lukeutuva Anne Tyler on hurmannut myös suomalaislukijat. Rakastetun kertojan taiturimainen romaani luo toivoa ja valaa uskoa uuden alun mahdollisuuteen. Willa Draken elämässä on tapahtunut muutama merkittävä käänne: Vuonna 1967 hänen äitinsä katosi. 1977 hän keskeytti opintonsa ja avioitui, 1997 hänestä tuli nuori leski. Kun Willa vuonna 2017 saa yllättävän puhelun, hän lentää halki maan huolehtiakseen tuntemattomasta nuoresta naisesta, naisen yhdeksänvuotiaasta tyttärestä ja koirasta. Baltimoressa, keskellä uutta elämäänsä ja omalaatuista naapurustoa, Willa huomaa, että lohtua voi löytää odottamattomista paikoista.

Kellotanssi

Huikea romaani naisesta, joka haluaa muuttaa elämänsä. Olipa kerran nainen, joka tajusi että hänestä oli tullut ihan väärä ihminen. Siinä vaiheessa hän oli viidenkymmenenkolmen ja isoäiti, ja vaarallisen lähellä hukata itsensä kokonaan. Milloin hänestä tuli iloista ja hyväntahtoista teeskentelevä keski-ikäinen nainen? Hänen iässään useimmat sanoisivat, että on myöhäistä muuttaa elämänsä suuntaa. Mutta Rebecca halusi kokeilla.

Aikaa sitten aikuisina

William Shakespeares Så tuktas en argbigga har i Anne Tylers moderna version blivit en lekfull, smart och bitsk kärleksroman. Med humor och värme förflyttas den 400 år gamla komedins handling till ett nutida Baltimore, med ett uppdaterat persongalleri och en lika charmig som egensinnig familj i huvudrollen.Kate Battistas liv har gått i stå, hon jobbar halvhjärtat på en förskola och bor tillsammans med sin truliga tonårsyster och excentriske far i föräldrahemmet utan några större framtidsplaner. Den yngre systern Bunny bryr sig mer om att hata köttätare och smyga ut med killar än att hjälpa till i hushållet, och doktor Battista är för det mesta i labbet där han efter många år tycker sig vara på väg mot ett genombrott i sin forskning som kan hjälpa miljoner människor. Men hans oumbärlige assistent Pjotr Tjerbakovs studentvisum är på väg att gå ut och omintetgöra vidare framsteg och doktor Battista tycker Kate borde ställa upp som giftaskandidat – då kan hon ju fortsätta sköta om hemmet och dessutom fixa ett green card till Pjotr. Kan den självständiga men uttråkade Kate ens närma sig Pjotr som säger så märkliga saker och har så underliga idéer, och skulle kärlek mellan dem någonsin kunna uppstå?Honung och ättika är en del i den internationella Shakespeare-serien där samtida författare tar sig an varsitt Shakespeareverk.

The Hogarth Shakespeare

Honung och ättika : så tuktas en argbigga på nytt

Brought to you by Penguin. The audio edition of The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler. 'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' - Allison Pearson, Daily Mail Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons - there are seven grown-up children - have a reputation for craziness and Elizabeth finds herself drawn into their disorderly lives against her will. But in the end it is hard to tell whether she is a victim of the needy Emersons, or the de facto ruler of the family. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD ‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty ‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve ‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike ‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty

The Clock Winder

Brought to you by Penguin. The audio edition of A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler. In a small Southern town teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their two lives become unforgettably entwined in this remarkable novel. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD ‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty ‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve ‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike ‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty

A Slipping Down Life

Brought to you by Penguin. The audio edition of Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler. Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, Searching for Caleb is a moving quest for a family's deepest roots - and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and rebellion. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD ‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty ‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve ‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike ‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty

Searching For Caleb

Brought to you by Penguin. Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as little Susan and Jin-ho take roots and become American. Full of achingly hilarious moments and toe-curling misunderstandings, Digging to America is a novel about belonging and otherness, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right... OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD 'She's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor 'One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty 'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve 'My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks 'Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good' John Updike 'I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner 'Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty © Anne Tyler 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2006

Digging to America

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes. Consumed by guilt Ian finds the hope of forgiveness at the Church of the Second Chance, and leaves college to cope with the three children he has inherited and his own embarrassing religion. Twenty years on, Ian's prospects of a second chance are receding fast when, out of the heart of the domesticity that has engulfed him, strides a new figure who will bring him new life. A heartfelt novel about the unexpected tragedies and second chances of life, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Accidental Tourist and The Amateur Marriage. Now available as an audiobook.

Saint Maybe

When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have forgotten she had died in the first place; and others just walked straight on by. The accident that killed Dorothy -- involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits -- leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. As those around him fuss and flap and bring him casserole after casserole, Aaron ploughs on. He busies himself with work at the family firm, a publisher with a successful line in 'Beginner's Guides' to every stage and aspect of life. But then Dorothy starts to materialize in the oddest places. At first, she only comes for a short while, leaving Aaron longing for more. Gradually she stays for longer, and as they talk they also bicker ... The cracks that start to reappear in their perfectly normal marriage are as well worn and familiar to Aaron as Dorothy herself. As Aaron starts to emerge from his grief, they are also a reassuringly poignant reminder that life may move on, but some things will forever remain the same.

The Beginner's Goodbye

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in the Polish neighbourhood of Baltimore, he was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervour, they were hastily wed. But they never should have married. Pauline, impulsive and impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, and judgemental, proceeds deliberately. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. A 17-year-old daughter disappears, and some years later this fractious pair is forced to rescue her little boy, named Pagan, from drug-infested San Francisco, to take him home and raise him. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayered apparel of later years, Anne Tyler captures the evocative nuances of everyday life during these decades with such telling precision that every page brings smiles of recognition. Throughout, as each of the competing voices bears witness, we are drawn ever more deeply into the complex entanglements of family life in this marvellous, multifaceted novel - one of Anne Tyler's finest.

The Amateur Marriage

Brought to you by Penguin. Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as little Susan and Jin-ho take roots and become American. Full of achingly hilarious moments and toe-curling misunderstandings, Digging to America is a novel about belonging and otherness, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right... OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD 'She's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor 'One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty 'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve 'My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby 'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks 'Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good' John Updike 'I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner 'Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty © Anne Tyler 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2014

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK ‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…’ This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer’s day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century – four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home… 'One of my favourite authors' Liane Moriarty 'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve 'Anne Tyler is one of my favourite writers and this is a delicious book' Rachel Joyce

A Spool of Blue Thread

‘You can’t get around Kate Battista as easily as all that’ Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work – her pre-school charges adore her, but the adults don’t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There’s only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr… When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he’s relying – as usual – on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he’s really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men’s touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round? Anne Tyler’s retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. The answer is as individual, off-beat and funny as Kate herself. 'I loved Kate and Pyotr and the way they discover the oversized, tender, irreverent relationship that fits them... It is joyful' Rachel Joyce ‘Read her books and she can actually change your view, change how you see the world’ Judy Finigan, Mail on Sunday ‘Tyler writes with an apparent effortlessness which conceals great art’ Helen Dunmore, Stylist ‘Tyler’s sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate’ Hanya Yanigihara, Observer ‘A new novel from Tyler is always a treat’ Daily Mail

Hogarth Shakespeare

Vinegar Girl

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.

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone. A heartfelt novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage and Breathing Lessons, now available as an audiobook.

The Accidental Tourist

Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises - a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, Noah's Compass chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. An unpleasant event occurs, though, to jolt him out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that brings its own thorny problems. His ex-wife (sensible Barbara) and daughters worry about him but Liam blunders on, His teenage daughter Kitty is sent to stay - though it's not clear who is minding whom. His middle daughter, Louise, is a born-again Christian with a son called Jonah, but her certainties leave Liam still more perplexed. Noah's Compass is about memory and its loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes aware that merely trying to stay afloat may not be enough.

Noah's Compass

Brought to you by Penguin. The audio edition of The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler. When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD ‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty ‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve ‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike ‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty

The Tin Can Tree

Brought to you by Penguin. The audio edition of Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler. Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people - a jockey, a shipping magnate, a foreign art dealer - and he likes to do this more and more since his massive brood of daughters are all growing up, getting married and finding him embarrassing. Then comes his first dramatic encounter with Emily and Leon Meredith, and the start of an extraordinary obsession. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD ‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty ‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve ‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike ‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty

Morgan's Passing

Brought to you by Penguin. The audio edition of If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler. Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram. He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears his eldest sister Joanne has left her husband and returned home with her baby girl. Out of a mixture of homesickness and duty Ben Joe returns to the home in which he has always felt like an outsider. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD ‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty ‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve ‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike ‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty

If Morning Ever Comes

Captivating BBC radio adaptations of three of Anne Tyler’s bestselling novels Award-winning author Anne Tyler is loved worldwide for her fiction exploring the intricacies of marriage and domesticity. These three acclaimed books, each set in Baltimore, describe the small triumphs and tragedies of everyday American family life, as relationships are made and broken, and families come together, drift apart, hurt and heal each other. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Tracks 1 and 2) Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl Tull attempts to keep her family together – but her anger and fierce maternal energy has damaging effects on her three children. Ladder of Years (Tracks 3 and 4) An unexpected romantic encounter in the grocery aisle is the beginning of a new adventure for homely Delia Grinstead, leading her to make a sudden, impulsive change in her life. The Amateur Marriage (Tracks 5 and 6) We follow the turbulent relationship of Michael and Pauline Anton over sixty years, from their whirlwind romance in 1941, to marriage, parenthood and beyond. Multi-layered and universal, with details that ring sharply true and characters that are both recognisable and entertaining, these three dramatisations feature a distinguished cast including Barbara Barnes, Lorelei King and Nathan Osgood. Dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz Produced and directed by David Hunter Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Pearl...Barbara Barnes Narrator...Lorelei King Beck...Nathan Osgood Young Cody...Max Baldry Young Ezra...Richard Linnell Young Jenny/Jane...Eloise Webb Cody...Ben Crowe Ezra...Simon Lee Phillips Jenny...Fenella Woolgar Josiah...Matthew Watson Harley...David Seddon Mrs Payson/Mrs Scarlatti...Joanna Brookes Ruth...Amaka Okafor Slevin...Will Howard Joe/Driver...David Seddon Priest/Driver/Dr Vincent...Paul Stonehouse Teacher/Driver...Philippa Stanton Mr Murphy...Sean Murray The Ladder of Years Delia...Nancy Crane Adrian...Ian Conningham Sam...Nathan Osgood Eliza...Jessica Turner Narrator/Woman...Barbara Barnes Rosemary/Debbie/Mother/Binky...Rhiannon Neads Skipper...David Acton Carroll/Clerk...Sam Valentine Driscoll/Ramsay/Vernon/Assistant...Mark Edel-Hunt Susie...Roslyn Hill Mr Maxwell/Nat...David Hounslow Linda/Belle...Jane Slavin Eliza...Jessica Turner Eleanor...Carol MacReady Mr Pomfret....Stephen Critchlow Noah...Sean McCrystal Joel...Sam Dale Rick Rack/Telephone Voice...Jude Akuwudike The Amateur Marriage Pauline/Young Pauline...Julianna Jennings Michael/George/Pagan...Tom Forrister Narrator...Barbara Barnes Mrs Anton...Pandora Colin Wanda/Lindy/Gina...Sarah Ridgeway Mrs Brunek/Mrs Serge/Mrs Barclay/Donna/Marilyn...Sanchia McCormack Katie/Karen...Maeve Bluebell Wells Mrs Golka/Destiny/Karen...Chetna Pandya Mrs Kowalski/Anna/Katie...Georgie Glen Officer/Policeman...John Bowler John Piazy/Alex/Policeman/Becoming....Finlay Robertson Eustace/Dun...David Sterne Lindy...Kayla Gal George/Pagan...Finn Monteath Michael...Ian Porter Cabbie...Nicholas Murchie Pauline...Sara Stewart Pagan...Noel Brooke George...David Sturzaker Lindy...Jane Slavin Pauline...Sara Stewart

Anne Tyler: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years & The Amateur Marriage

One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this joyous and outgoing organiser of parties, the put-upon heart of her dead husband's extended family? What happened to her quiet and serious nineteen-year-old self, and what would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? Can someone ever recover the person they've left behind?

Back When We Were Grown-ups

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Clock Dance by Anne Tyler, read by Kimberly Farr. Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son’s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman – and her nine-year-old daughter, and her dog – will lead Willa into uncharted territory. Surrounded by new and surprising neighbours, she is plunged into the rituals that make a community, and takes pleasure in the most unexpected things. A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal, Clock Dance brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides it’s never too late to change direction, and choose your own path. 'She is and always will be my favourite author' Liane Moriarty

Clock Dance

Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread: an offbeat love story about mis-steps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection Micah Mortimer isn’t the most polished person you’ll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his days running errands for work – his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on the roof of his car – maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady balance of his life. But then the order of things starts to tilt. His woman friend Cassia (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a ‘girlfriend’) tells him she’s facing eviction because of a cat. And when a teenager shows up at Micah’s door claiming to be his son, Micah is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle. Redhead by the Side of the Road is an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who sometimes finds those around him just out of reach – and a love story about the differences that make us all unique. © Anne Tyler 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Redhead by the Side of the Road

Brought to you by Penguin. Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy batchelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make mosaic sculptures - until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage and Digging to America. OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD ‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty ‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan ‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve ‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike ‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner ‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty

Celestial Navigation

Kuinka erottamattomia ja samalla vieraita toisilleen voivat perheenjäsenet olla? Hilpeä ja koskettava Palmikko on taattua Anne Tyleria: oivaltava romaani täynnä lämpöä ja huumoria. Garrettit viettävät ensimmäisen ja viimeisen perhelomansa kesällä 1959. Maalaukselle omistautuvalla Mercyllä on yhä vähemmän aikaa kodinhoitoon ja aviomiehelleen Robinille. Heidän teini-ikäisillä tyttärillään, Alicella ja Lilyllä, ei voisi olla vähemmän yhteistä. Perheen nuorin, David, pyrkii jo kaikin voimin irti perheen vaikutuspiiristä. Mutta kaikesta irtipyristelystä huolimatta Garrettit eivät voi mitään sille, että vuosikymmentenkin jälkeen heidän elämänsä ovat yhä sidoksissa toisiinsa. "Rivien väliin kätkeytyy aimo annos viisautta ja huumoria." – Anna-lehti

Palmikko

He rakastavat toisiaan, mutta eivät voi sietää toisiaan... Pauline on impulsiivinen tunneihminen, Michael vetäytyvä tosikko. Kun toiset avioparit löytävät vähitellen yhteisen sävelen, nämä kaksi pysyvät ikuisina vasta-alkajina. Oikukas Pauline tuudittautuu ajatukseen, että säröt voi aina korjata, mutta järkkymätön Michael haluaa muutosta. Avioliitto päättyy kolmenkymmenen vuoden jälkeen, mutta ovatko Pauline ja Michael oppineet mitään? Anne Tylerin romaaneihin mahtuu koko elämän kirjo.

Avioliiton lyhyt oppimäärä

Mistä miehelle elämän suunta? Barnaby Caitlin on mies johon voi luottaa. Näin ajattelevat hänen työpaikkansa Lainaselkä Oy:n kiitolliset asiakkaat. Täysin toista mieltä on hänen perheensä; onhan Barnay aina ollut se paha poika, suvun musta lammas. Kolmikymppisenä hän on myös eronnut mies ja tyttärensä menettänyt isä. Mistä tupsahtaisi pelastava enkeli, joka näyttäisi Barnabylle hänen elämänsä suunnan? Anne Tyler on ilmiömäisen hieno kertoja, hauska, lämmin ja tarkkanäköinen. Hänen romaaniinsa mahtuu elämän koko kirjo.

Oikukas planeetta

Anne Tyler vihaa Shakespearen näytelmiä. Eniten hän vihaa näytelmää "Kuinka äkäpussi kesytetään". Niinpä hän kirjoitti tarinan uusiksi. Äkäpussi on 29-vuotias Kate Battista. Hän asuu söpön pikkusiskonsa ja hajamielisen isänsä kanssa sen jälkeen, kun on saanut potkut yliopistolta haukuttuaan kasvitieteen professoria idiootiksi. Sosiaalisesti taitamaton Kate työskentelee nyt avustajana esikoulussa ja järkyttää siellä alituiseen vanhempia ja saa hallinnon suunniltaan kaunistelemattomilla mielipiteillään. Sitten Katen tutkijaisä tekee yllättävän ehdotuksen. Hän toivoo tyttärensä naivan ulkomaalaisen tutkimusapulaisensa, jottei tämän tarvitsisi poistua maasta viisumin vanhennuttua. Siitähän soppa syntyy ja Äkäpussi vie lukijaa kuin pässiä lieassa lempeän huumorin keinoin. Tylerin Kate on fiksu nuori nainen, mutta siinä mielessä hankala ja jopa vaarallinen, ettei hän piittaa siitä, viihtyvätkö ihmiset hänen seurassaan tai tuntevatko oloaan turvalliseksi. Miten naimakaupan ja Katen käy, sen jätämme suosiolla lukijoiden löydettäväksi. Pisara Katea on Tylerissa itsessäänkin. Vasta hänen tyttärensä kommentit saivat kirjailijan ymmärtämään, että oli ehkä hivenen epäkohteliasta tokaista Tylerin englantilaiselle kustannustoimittajalle vihaavansa Shakespearea. Varsinkin, kun kyseinen toimittaja työskentelee nimenomaan Shakespearea julkaisevassa kustantamossa. Omien sanojensa mukaan jo varsin aikuiseen ikään ehtinyt Tyler kirjoittaa yhä siksi, ettei hänellä ole harrastuksia. Tyler ei ajattele maailman enää kaipaavan häneltä yhtään uutta kirjaa, mutta tässä meillä nyt on Anne Tylerin uran lyhin ja kepein romaani, josta kirjailija itse on todennut: "Kirjaa oli valtavan hauska kirjoittaa! Se oli ihan namia!" Anne Tylerilta (s. 1941) on suomennettu toista kymmentä teosta, joukossa myös Pulitzer-palkittu Hengitysharjoituksia (Otava 1989, suom. Saara Villa).

Johnny Kniga Shakespeare

Äkäpussi

Rakastettu kirjailija kuvaa tarkkanäköisesti baltimorelaisperhettä neljän sukupolven ja yhden talon kautta. Abby ja Red Whitshank asuvat Redin isän rakentamassa hulppeassa talossa Baltimoren paremmalla puolella. Kun aikuiset lapset muuttavat kutsumatta huolehtimaan ikääntyvistä vanhemmistaan, perheen dynamiikkaa koetellaan. Suvun muotokuva rakentuu mosaiikin lailla perheenjäsenten iloista, pikkumaisuuksista ja katkeruuksista. Köyhyydestä ponnistanut isoisä on jättänyt perinnöksi paitsi talon ja ylpeyden omista juurista myös kaihertavan alemmuudentunteen. Kerimällä auki yhden suvun tarinan Tyler suorittaa amerikkalaisen keskiluokan ruumiinavauksen. Viilto on armoton, mutta katse armollinen.

Sininen lanka

Die unauflöslichen Fäden, die unsere Familie um uns spinnt Anne Tyler erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Garrett von den 1950er Jahren bis heute. Sie schildert meisterhaft, wie wir alle die subtilen Äußerungen von Liebe, Enttäuschung, Stolz und Ablehnung von denen, die uns so nahe sind, verinnerlichen und wie das Handeln eines Familienmitglieds über Generationen hinweg Auswirkungen haben kann.

Eine gemeinsame Sache (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Der etwas seltsame, aber durchaus charmante Mr Leary schreibt Reiseführer für Leute, die geschäftlich unterwegs sein müssen, das Reisen aber hassen - ganz wie er selbst! Sein höchstes Ziel ist es, Tipps zu geben, dank derer man sich möglichst wie zu Hause fühlt. Als seine Frau Sarah beschließt, sich nach zwanzig Jahren Ehe von ihm zu trennen, gerät sein höchst organisiertes Leben ins Wanken, und er wird gezwungen, die gewohnten Wege zu verlassen.

Die Reisen des Mr Leary (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Baltimora, 15 agosto 1997. Brad e Bitsy Donaldson, una coppia molto americana, e Sami e Ziba Yazdan, marito e moglie iraniano- americani, si trovano all'aeroporto. Il momento è carico di emozioni e di aspettative, perché le due coppie, con i parenti al seguito, stanno aspettando il volo dalla Corea per prendere in consegna le loro bambine appena adottate. Contro ogni previsione, tra due famiglie piuttosto diverse nasce una lunga amicizia. Il 15 agosto, anniversario del giorno dell'arrivo, i politicamente corretti Donaldson organizzano una festa; all'inizio sembra un pretesto per favorire l'integrazione delle figlie, ma presto diventa evidente che le bambine non sono le sole ad avere bisogno di sentirsi a casa. La festa viene riproposta anno dopo anno, sempre più elaborata, completa di dolce decorato a stelle e strisce, sontuosi piatti iraniani, canzoni e proiezione di filmini. Con le sue perplessità e la sua cauta moderazione, anche Maryam, l'altera nonna iraniana Yazdan, vi partecipa. E quando un coetaneo del clan Donaldson la corteggia, lei vede minacciati tutti i suoi valori, le sue tradizioni, la sua indipendenza...

La figlia perfetta

La vita di Macon Laery è organizzata con la precisione di un meccanismo a orologeria. Giorno dopo giorno, la sua esistenza si svolge, secondo regole accuratamente prestabilite, tra la stesura di guide turistiche per uomini d'affari, le passeggiate con Edward, simpatico cagnetto vagamente nevrotico, e il continuo perfezionamento delle proprie abitudini. Perfino il dolore, quello per la tragica morte del figlio e per il successivo abbandono da parte della moglie, sembra non scalfire il mondo ordinato di Macon. Il destino, però, ha in serbo per lui un colpo di sorpresa. Si chiama Muriel Pritchett, ha una massa ribelle di riccioli, un bambino bisognoso di cure ed è un turbine di incontrollabile disordine. Più a nulla varranno le resistenze, la pazienza, il metodo, la fuga: è arrivata la vita e Macon non può più nascondersi.

Turista per caso

Anne Tyler nos leva a um romance sábio, assustador e profundamente tocante em que descreve um homem de meia-idade, desolado pela morte de sua esposa, que tem melhorado gradualmente pelas aparições frequentes da mulher — na casa deles, na estrada, no mercado. Com deficiência no braço e na perna direita, Aaron passou sua infância tentando se livrar de sua irmã, que queria mandar nele. Então, quando conhece Dorothy, uma jovem tímida e recatada, ele vê uma luz no fim do túnel. Eles se casam e têm uma vida relativamente modesta e feliz. Mas quando uma árvore cai em sua casa, Dorothy morre e Aaron começa a se sentir vazio. Apenas as aparições inesperadas de Dorothy o ajudam a sobreviver e encontrar certa paz. Aos poucos, durante seu trabalho na editora da família, ele descobre obras que presumem ser guias para iniciantes durante os caminhos da vida e que, talvez para esses iniciantes, há uma maneira de dizer adeus.

O começo do adeus

Maggie Moran e seu marido são comuns, até um pouco tediosos. E é esse realismo que torna esta história tão eficaz e comovente... Começa em um dia de verão, quando Maggie e Ira viajam de Baltimore para a Pensilvânia para um funeral. Maggie é impetuosa, desastrada, desajeitada, propensa a acidentes e tagarela. Ira é reservado, preciso, respeitável, tem uma mania irritante de assobiar músicas que traem seus pensamentos mais profundos e acha que sua esposa transforma os fatos de maneira que se encaixem na sua opinião sobre as pessoas que ama. Ambos sentem que seus filhos são estranhos, que a cultura das novas gerações está indo por água abaixo e que, de alguma forma, se enganaram com essa sociedade cujos valores não reconhecem mais. Mas esta viagem vai levá-los a refletir sobre estas angústias, e vai mostrá-los como é importante reavaliar seus sentimentos.

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