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  • Published: 3 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473512733
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 57 min
  • Narrator: Blair Brown
  • RRP: $19.99

Back When We Were Grown-ups




How on earth did I get like this? How? How did I ever become this person who's not really me?

One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this joyous and outgoing organiser of parties, the put-upon heart of her dead husband's extended family? What happened to her quiet and serious nineteen-year-old self, and what would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? Can someone ever recover the person they've left behind?

  • Published: 3 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473512733
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 57 min
  • Narrator: Blair Brown
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Anne Tyler

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, A Spool of Blue Thread, Redhead by the Side of the Road and Three Days in June. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'.

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Praise for Back When We Were Grown-ups

Beautifully observed... Effortlessly brilliant

Daily Telegraph

Like all great writers, Tyler creates her own world...she is that rare being: a writer so good that she lets you forget it. If you're one of the few who's yet to discover her, don't waste any more time: this ranks among her best

Daily Mail

Superb... Beautifully conceived, masterfully executed... Out of the emotional confusions spawned by dislocated, dysfunctional families, Anne Tyler has produced - yet again - a scintillating comedy of manners

Sunday Telegraph

Her touch, whether comic, wry or tragic, is as subtle as goose down... An insight bordering on genius... Tyler, of the fresh, almost conversational prose, sharp dialogue and all too much human truth, really is one of the wisest and most perceptive observers crafting fiction as life

Irish Times

One of her very best

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