Celestial Navigation
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  • Published: 4 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780099480112
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $30.00

Celestial Navigation

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

'A rich, revolutionary novel...she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion' The Times

Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make small collages - until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down.

**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: 4 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780099480112
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $30.00
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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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Also by Anne Tyler

Clock Dance
French Braid
Ladder of Years
Redhead by the Side of the Road
The Beginner's Goodbye
A Spool of Blue Thread
Vinegar Girl
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Praise for Celestial Navigation

A rich, revolutionary novel...she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion

The Times

Anne Tyler's talent is to make extraordinary characters entirely credible... So unfaltering is their story that every word is convincing

Sunday Times

Tyler has created two characters at once entirely original and entirely convincing...a quiet but immensely strong novel, to admire and treasure

Sunday Telegraph