'I love Anne Tyler.I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson_ 'Bursting with vitality and variety, it's a tour-de-force' Sunday Times 'Anne Tyler has the ability to take the minutiae of characters' lives and say wise things about the human condition that other writers can only dream of' Stylist

'Tyler packs feeling and insight into every single sentence' Good Housekeeping 'Comfort reading of the best sort' Irish Times 'A book this lovely feels practically heaven-sent' Daily Mail PRAISE FOR REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD: ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020** ** BOOK OF THE YEAR Sunday Times, Daily Express, Times, Daily Telegraph, Good Housekeeping, Metro, Spectator, New Statesman** Cassia is threatened with eviction, and when a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son, he is confronted with another surprise he seems poorly equipped to handle.Ĭan Micah, a man to whom those around him always seem just out of reach, find a way back to his perfectly imperfect love story? His carefully calibrated life is regular, steady, balanced.īut then the order of things starts to tilt. He is in a long-term relationship with his woman friend Cassia, but they live apart. Micah Mortimer measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). 'If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC Radio 4, Woman's HourĪ perfect love story for imperfect people. An intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who finds those around him just out of reach, and a funny, joyful, deeply compassionate story about seeing the world through new eyes, Redhead by the Side of the Road is a triumph, filled with Anne Tyler's signature wit and gimlet-eyed observation.A love-story gem from the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a 'girlfriend') tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.

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