- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9780099539582
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $24.99
Noah's Compass
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9780099539582
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $24.99
Anne Tyler draws a comedy that is not so much brilliant as luminous - its observant sharpness sweetened by a generous understanding of human fallibility
Jane Shilling, Daily Telegraph
One of my favourite authors, one of the very few I rush out to buy in hardback.
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
A brilliant writer... Funny, wise, tragic.
Lynne Truss, Independent
Written with such heart and humour you'll ration the pages in the hope that it will never end
Kerry Fowler, Good Housekeeping
Another heartfelt, evocative novel from Tyler
Viv Groskop, RED
As exquisitely observed and quietly brilliant as the rest of Tyler's fiction
Joanna Briscoe, Guardian
Anne Tyler is always good value, and this novel, replete with subtle ironies, is characteristic of her lucid style.
Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday
Tyler brings a scorching wisdom, an understanding of what breaks the human spirit, and the ways in which people try to paper the cracks...Limpidly, singingly written, with dialogue to break a scriptwriter's heart
Rosemary Goring, The Sunday Herald
Prose is as bright and pretty as in her best work. The dialogue crackles and there are insightful observations about the way families create stories to explain themselves
John O’Connell, The Times
Her novels have a grace and an emotional depth that few romances can match
Nick Rennison, Sunday Times
Compassionate and funny dissection of the workings of the human heart
Fanny Blake, Woman & Home
Sharply funny, and tenderly wise
Eithne Farry, Marie Claire
A prize of a novel, readable yet with a mood of autumnal sadness liable to sit on the reader's chest for some time after the book is finished...Tyler has her own internal compass and knows just where to steer her narrative arc
Colin Waters, The Herald
Has the surer touch than almost all of the twice as famous among the American novelists of her generation
Karl Miller, Times Literary Supplement
Tyler's deft hand at human comedy keeps you entertained the whole time
Claire Harman, Evening Standard
Noah's Compass is immensely readable. It displays many of Tyler's finest qualities: her sharp observation of humanity, her wry comedy; the luminous accuracy of her descriptions... a novel by Anne Tyler is cause for celebration
Caroline Moore, Sunday Telegraph
Wonderfully imagined exploration of memory, loss, and relationships, and how we look at our pasts
Paul Blezard, The Lady
Her sterling talent for composing an enthralling story, skilfully paced and enlivened by more than one startling, but eminently satisfying, plot twist, is on display here'
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Irish Times
Sensitively drawn characters
Clare Longrigg, Psychologies
Anne Tyler is a novelist who has elevated pitch-perfect observation of everyday detail into an art form... a beautifully subtle book, an elegant contemplation of what it means to be happy and the consequences of a defensive withdrawal from other people
Elizabeth Day, Observer
As always with Tyler, the prose flows sweetly from page to page, conjuring up characters so believable you want to thump them
Nina Caplan, Time Out
Tyler brilliantly anatomises everyday life... Her novels have emotional depth and engaging with her characters is a pleasure
Sunday Times
Tyler has composed a four-act drama in the form of a novel. There is nothing extraneous and nothing overly dramatic here, and in that lies her very considerable strength as a writer
Isobel Montgomery, Guardian
Reading Tyler's novels often feels like slipping into favourite pyjamas: her 18th is just as comfortable and comforting. Combining a light-hearted David Lodge-like meditation on old age with the domestic dysfunction of a soap set in Middle American, her simple, nuanced prose reveals some lovely twists.
Laura Silverman, Daily Mail