Back When We Were Grown-ups
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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

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of French Braid

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1 May 2010
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3 Jul 2014
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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
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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, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.

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Also by Anne Tyler

Three Days in June
Redhead by the Side of the Road
French Braid
Anne Tyler: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years & The Amateur Marriage
Clock Dance
Half-truths and Semi-miracles
Vinegar Girl
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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

Mail on Sunday
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