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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?

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Ladder of Years

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 1 February 1996
      ISBN-13 9780099479413
      978-0099479413
      ISBN-10 0099479419
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Anne Tyler

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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



      Trade Review
      No one evokes the frustrations of marriage, family life and independence with such pinpoint accuracy as Tyler * Daily Mail *
      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 *

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