![]() ![]() 'A faultless novel, effortlessly profound. Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless' GRAHAM NORTON Anne Tyler’s ‘French Braid’ captures the avoidances and silences of family life Maat 6:00 am By Laurie Hertzel Star Tribune Robin is a plumber and Mercy is first a housewife and. '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 'She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE MORIARTY 'Gorgeous, charming, profound, and written with such lightness of touch' MARIAN KEYES The glorious Sunday Times bestseller follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations. Anne Tyler, the Pulitzer Prizewinning writer widely considered one of America’s finest authors, released her novel French Braid in 2022. For Mercy it all begins in 1959, with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. Not even their cat, Desmond.īut it turns out family life is impossible to escape - particularly when it's in your past. When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.Īll she wants is space and silence. ![]()
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