A Patchwork Planet

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Barnaby Gailtin has less in life than he once had.His ex-wife Natalie left him and their native Baltimore several years ago, taking their baby daughter Opal with her, and he has acquired an unalterably fixed position as the black sheep of the family in a family where black sheep aren’t tolerated. Then the angelic Sophia enters his life and it seems as if all this is set to change. But can he shake off his past?**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**’Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing’ Rachel Joyce’She knows all the secrets of the human heart’ Monica Ali ‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks’I love Anne Tyler. I’ve read every single book she’s written’ Jacqueline Wilson

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Weight 0.281 kg
Dimensions 2.1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format
language1
Pages

352

Publisher

Year Published

1999-2-25

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099272687

About The Author

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 Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid.In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Tyler is a masterly writer whose love stories make you think as well as feel.

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I was bowled over…I finished the book wishing it had been twice as long

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