A Spool of Blue Thread

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZEA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'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 summer's day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red's father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red's grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century - four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home...'One of my favourite authors' Liane Moriarty'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve'Anne Tyler is one of my favourite writers and this is a delicious book' Rachel Joyce

Product details

• Authors: Anne Tyler
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780099598480
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959848-0
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Baltimore, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, Family life fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION / Multiple Timelines, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary