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  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409022824
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

A Patchwork Planet



A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time

Barnaby Gailtin has less in life than he once had.

His ex-wife Natalie left him and their native Baltimore several years ago, taking their baby daughter Opal with her, and he has acquired an unalterably fixed position as the black sheep of the family in a family where black sheep aren't tolerated. Then the angelic Sophia enters his life and it seems as if all this is set to change. But can he shake off his past?

**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

  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409022824
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

About the author

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.

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Praise for A Patchwork Planet

Tyler is a masterly writer whose love stories make you think as well as feel.

Sebastian Faulks

I was bowled over...I finished the book wishing it had been twice as long

Jeremy Paxman

I can think of no other writer whose novels I look forward to with such gleeful anticipation. A Patchwork Planet is her fourteenth book, but were it for fortieth, it would not be enough for me... A delight from beginning to end

Observer

Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate... [A Patchwork Planet] is charming, readable, and more full of touching and humane observations than many other novels you will read this year

Guardian

A Patchwork Planet is thoroughly enjoyable...from this most responsive novel

Sunday Times

Tyler's best book yet - which must make it pretty near perfection

The Times

Tyler is a masterly writer whose love stories make you think as well as feel.

Sebastian Faulks