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- ISBN 9781529940220
- Weight: 130g
- Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Weddings aren't just about the happy couple… The funny, touching, hopeful book of the summer
The Sunday Times bestseller
‘She is and always will be my favourite author’ LIANE MORIARTY
‘Just relishable. Thank God for the balm of good writing’ NIGELLA LAWSON
'Razor sharp on family, love and marriage' DAVID NICHOLLS
'I devoured it in one long lazy afternoon - I laughed and cried' VICTORIA HISLOP
'Anne Tyler really is the best' GRAHAM NORTON
It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines.
First thing, she loses her job (or quits, depending who you ask). Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door looking for somewhere to stay. He doesn’t even have a suit. Instead, he’s brought memories – and a cat looking for a new home.
Just as Gail is wondering what’s next, their daughter Debbie discovers her groom has been keeping a secret which could throw the whole wedding into question…
READERS HAVE FALLEN HEAD OVER HEELS FOR THREE DAYS IN JUNE
‘Oh I loved this novel so much I feel like starting it all over again’
‘Such a positive story about journeys to development and forgiveness and love. Oh and there's a cat!’
‘A delight. Such good writing, wonderful characters.’
‘Leaves you smiling. What more can you want.’
‘This was the first book of Anne Tyler’s that I’ve ever read. Now I’m hooked’
‘It made me laugh out loud’
‘Anne Tyler never fails to grip you from the very first sentence’
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.
