A Spool of Blue Thread: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2015

Author: Tyler, Anne

Brand: VINTAGE

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 480

Release Date: 03-09-2015

Details: **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**

'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...'

This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer's day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.

From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red's father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red's grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century - four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home...

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

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EAN: 9780099598480

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English