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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407016054
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

Ladder of Years



A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time

One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going.

After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her?

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce

'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali

'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks

'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson

  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407016054
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

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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Praise for Ladder of Years

It is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted

Herald

Another winner from Anne Tyler

Independent

Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page…scintillating with joie de vivre

Sunday Times

Utterly compelling…wonderfully satisfying...virtually flawless

Chicago Tribune

Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy

Observer

No one evokes the frustrations of marriage, family life and independence with such pinpoint accuracy as Tyler

Daily Mail

Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy

Observer

Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy

Observer

Anne Tyler's novels have three qualities that make them special: they are funny, they are sad, they are intelligent

Nick Hornby

Another winner from Anne Tyler

Independent

Another winner from Anne Tyler

Independent

Dialogue top-rate, people alive to their fingertips, places as real as next door - you don't get a finer comedy of manners than this

Mail on Sunday

Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page. Ladder of Years ruefully contemplates the unhaltable passage of time. But, scintillating with joie de vivre, it also offers an intensely appealing way of passing it

Sunday Times

Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page…scintillating with joie de vivre

Sunday Times

Her best book yet

Roddy Doyle

It is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted

Herald

It is difficult to imagine a writer so prodigiously gifted; her work appears to be effortless. She is one of the most accomplished and impressive novelists of her generation, one of the very few contemporary writers one reads with a real sense of discovery

Herald

So rigorous and artful is the style without a style, so measured and delicate is each observation, so complex is the structure and so astute and open the language, that the reader can relax, feel secure in the narrative and experience the work as something real and natural

New York Times

The beauty is in the details

Sunday Times

Utterly compelling…wonderfully satisfying...virtually flawless

Chicago Tribune

Wonderfully satisfying... Virtually flawless

Chicago Tribune