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Searching For Caleb
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  • Published: 22 March 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099591917
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99

Searching For Caleb

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

Discover Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's deeply personal American historical epic.

Duncan Peck is a restless man, always on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912 never to be seen again. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots, to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one...

**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: 22 March 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099591917
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99
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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 Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, Redhead by the Side of the Road and French Braid.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

portrait photo of Anne Tyler

Also by Anne Tyler

Three Days in June
French Braid
Redhead by the Side of the Road
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 Searching For Caleb

Family sagas have such an endless appeal that whenever one meets a really good one, like Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb, one wonders why anyone bothers to write a different form of novel

Auberon Waugh

Anne Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredicability of seemingly everyday lives

Sunday Telegraph

Strange and enchanting

The Times