Late one July evening in 1994, Red and Abby Whitshank had a phone call from their son Denny. They were getting ready for bed at the time. Abby was standing at the bureau in her slip, drawing hairpins ...

“The trouble with dying,” a mother says in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.” “But, Mom,” replies her daughter, “there is no ...

In her 20th novel, the American chronicler of domestic life slyly dismantles the myth-making behind all our family stories Way back in 1986, when Anne Tyler had already written 10 novels, including ...

Anne Tyler loves the everyday. With her 20th novel (20th!!!!), A Spool of Blue Thread, Tyler continues to sew together stories about the mundane and turn them into something approaching the magical.

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As I settled in to Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread, I recognised with a shiver of delight the same feelings — ...

A Spool of Blue Thread is a richly textured story about a Baltimore house and the Whitshank family who have lived there for two generations. Anne Tyler spools back and forth between the present and ...

There’s a reason why Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler (The Accidental Tourist) is one of America’s most-read authors. She combines emotional complexity with wholly relatable material in observational ...

Anne Tyler’s Booker short-listed A Spool of Blue Thread is an exquisite meditation on family life. It spans across several generations, taking in one family’s secrets and losses, its changes and ...

This review was originally published on February 7 2015 and has been republished to mark the author's nomination for the Man Booker Prize 2015 'Like most families,” Anne Tyler says of the Whitshanks, ...

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