One day, during a family seaside holiday, something which has already begun to fray quietly snaps. Delia simply walks off the beach, away from her husband, Sam, and her three almost grown-up children. In a nearby town, she reinvents herself as a serious and independent-minded woman without ties.
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"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)
"Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy" (Observer)
From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Ladder of Years is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler’s books in striking new backlist style
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