Breathing Lessons

A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure

The Times

A major achievement

Irish Times

Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments

Independent

Displays her extraordinary gifts in supreme harmony: exquisite narrative clarity, faultless comic timing, and the Tyler trademark of happy-sad characters inspiring a mid-American domestic drama that somehow slips the surly bonds of the quotidian to become timeless and universal

Guardian, Best 100 Novels of all time

A work of art

Guardian

Her finest novel

Irish Times

Tyler has such warmth of spirit that almost any novel by her is an escapist pleasure. But this is her masterpiece - one day in the life of a fifty something couple as they journey to a funeral and have their lives laid out in front of us. The book won the Pulitzer and is as human and generous as they come

Stig Abell, Sunday Times

Anne Tyler's characters are simultaneously funny and sad, heroic and pathetic and none more so than Maggie and Ira...you end up thinking you've known this family all your life

John O'Farrell

A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure to read

The Times

Breathing Lessons is a work of art, kindling a whole world of feeling out of such trivia as remembered popular songs from the time of one's adolescence, presenting to the reader a series of plain perceptions which seem to touch a completeness beyond themselves

Guardian

An arresting slice of Baltimore life

Independent

Her writing style is superb...there is humour...the dialogue both external and internal is fantastic

Savidge Reads

Funny, poignant and reflective

Katie Allan, Easy Living

Displays her extraordinary gifts in supreme harmony: exquisite narrative clarity, faultless comic timing, and the Tyler trademark of happy-sad characters inspiring a mid-American domestic drama that somehow slips the surly bonds of the quotidian to becometimeless and universal

Robert McCrum, Guardian, Best 100 Novels of all time

Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments

Adam Mars-Jones, Independent

Her finest novel… A major achievement

Irish Times

A novel by Anne Tyler is a subject for rejoicing...Breathing Lessons is a pleasure

The Times

A major achievement

Irish Times

Anne Tyler has a real gift for generating tender and amazing moments

Independent

Displays her extraordinary gifts in supreme harmony: exquisite narrative clarity, faultless comic timing, and the Tyler trademark of happy-sad characters inspiring a mid-American domestic drama that somehow slips the surly bonds of the quotidian to become timeless and universal

Guardian, Best 100 Novels of all time

A work of art

Guardian

Her finest novel

Irish Times

Tyler has such warmth of spirit that almost any novel by her is an escapist pleasure. But this is her masterpiece - one day in the life of a fifty something couple as they journey to a funeral and have their lives laid out in front of us. The book won the Pulitzer and is as human and generous as they come

Stig Abell, Sunday Times