Anne Tyler uses wit and a homely minor key to reel the reader into a gripping domestic saga A Spool of Blue Thread By Anne Tyler, Knopf, 368 pages, $25.95 Breathing Lessons was the name of Anne ...

“The trouble with dying,” a mother says in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.” “But, Mom,” replies her daughter, “there is no ...

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Anne Tyler on her new novel A Spool of Blue Thread, Elizabeth Harrower on publishing again after four decades and a close reading of Muriel Spark's manipulative Miss Jean Brodie. Show more Anne ...

Anne Tyler is back in Baltimore, among the middle-class families that have been her domain for five decades. A Spool of Blue Thread, her 20th novel, is not her best, but it features some characters ...

The characters in "A Spool of Blue Thread" look like the same Baltimore family members we've socialized with for 50 years in Anne Tyler's fiction. In fact, everything about her new novel — from its ...

What makes it so good? Its subject is her most recognizable and essential one, family, its setting again Baltimore, its story told in her customarily sweet, wistful, comic voice. In other words, A ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As I settled in to Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread, I recognised with a shiver of delight the same feelings — ...

There’s a reason why Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler (The Accidental Tourist) is one of America’s most-read authors. She combines emotional complexity with wholly relatable material in observational ...

This review was originally published on February 7 2015 and has been republished to mark the author's nomination for the Man Booker Prize 2015 'Like most families,” Anne Tyler says of the Whitshanks, ...