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Clock Dance

Clock Dance

A Novel

by Anne Tyler
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/07/2018

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BOOK OF THE YEAR IN 7 NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS

** The Sunday Timesbestseller ** BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime **


A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the Sunday Timesbestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread


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 Dancebrings 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
ISBN:
9781784742430
9781784742430
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-07-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
240x162x30mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is the author of twenty bestselling novels. Her most recent, A Spool of Blue Thread, was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books, as well as being nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'.

Vinegar Girl sees Anne Tyler going behind the scenes of one of Shakespeare's most controversial yet enduring (Kiss Me Kate, 10 Things I Hate About You) plays: 'You know how sometimes a friend will tell you something that happened to her, and you think wait, there must be more to it than that, I'm sure there's another side to this. Well, that's how I've always felt about The Taming of the Shrew.'

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