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A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler

A Spool of Blue Thread By Anne Tyler

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler


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Summary

The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home.

A Spool of Blue Thread Summary

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

**Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015**

**Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015**


**Sunday Times bestseller**

'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 day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.

And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home. They've all come, even Denny, who can usually be relied on only to please himself.

From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are. And while all families like to believe they are special, round that kitchen table over all those years we also see played out our own hopes and fears, rivalries and tensions - the essential nature of family life.

OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD

A Spool of Blue Thread Reviews

Tyler's twentieth novel finds fresh fictional riches in imaginative territory she has been exploring for half a century... Atmospherically rendered, the passage of time has both entertaining and heart-rending results. She has never written with more finesse, vitality and acuteness * Sunday Times, book of the year *
I love Tyler's writing... She writes so beautifully and with such insight. Read her books and she can actually change your view, change how you see the world -- Judy Finnigan * Mail on Sunday *
Exquisite * The Times *
Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate -- Hanya Yanigihara * Observer, Books That Made Our Year 2015 *
The extraordinary thing about her writing is the extent to which she makes one believe every word, deed and breath -- Kate Kellaway * Guardian *

About Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl, Clock Dance and Redhead by the Side of the Road.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.

Additional information

GOR007279233
9781784701093
1784701092
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20150903
480
Short-listed for Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK) Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK) Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2017 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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