Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Her best novel

Guardian

Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer

Observer

A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise…superb

New York Times Book Review

The most impressive American novelist of her generation

Sunday Telegraph

A classic of contemporary Americana…variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving

Los Angeles Times

[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write.

Nick Hornby, UK Press Syndication

The best of Tyler's many excellent books

Daily Telegraph THE 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME

I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, but to be honest, anything by Tyler will do. She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a proper family saga filled with beady but compassionate takes on all of the unforgettable characters. Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that

Hadley Freeman, Good Housekeeping

Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry

Sunday Telegraph

Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment

New York Times Book Review

A terrific writer... She's changed my perception on life

Anna Chancellor

A classic of contemporary Americana... variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving

Los Angeles Times

A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read

Boston Globe

A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well

Newsweek

In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power

The New Yorker

A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well

Newsweek

Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry

Sunday Telegraph

Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humor. This new novel delighted me - perhaps her best so far.

New York Times

In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power

New Yorker

The charm of an Anne Tyler novel lies in the clarity of her prose and the wisdom of her observations, in her fine ear for the 'clamor' of family.

Washington Post

Eudora Welty proclaimed: 'If I could have written the last sentence of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant I'd have been happy the rest of my life'

Eudora Welty

A brilliant novel

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