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Book SynopsisRead Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler''s classic exploration of the impact of grief on a family.
When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way.
**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 ReviewA wholly individual writer of considerable stature * Sunday Telegraph *
Her touch is deft, her perceptions keen, her ear for speech phenomenal. Her people are triumphantly alive * New York Times *
Miss Tyler is a writer whose special gift is to convey the richness, strangeness and unpredictability of seemingly everyday lives...She is a wholly individual writer and one of considerable stature * Sunday Telegraph *