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Book Synopsis''A rich, revolutionary novel...she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion'' The Times
Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother''s boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make small collages - until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down.
**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
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Trade ReviewA rich, revolutionary novel...she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion * The Times *
Anne Tyler's talent is to make extraordinary characters entirely credible... So unfaltering is their story that every word is convincing * Sunday Times *
Tyler has created two characters at once entirely original and entirely convincing...a quiet but immensely strong novel, to admire and treasure * Sunday Telegraph *
