'As exquisitely observed and quietly brilliant as the rest of Tyler's fiction' Guardian Liam
Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly in
his sixty-first year something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with
a frightening gap in his memory. In trying to piece together what took place on his first
night in a new apartment Liam finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own and a
late-flowering love that brings its own set of thorny problems... **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
