A complex, nuanced look at relationships, and the nature of romantic attachment

In this gripping novel, best selling author of Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty, will explore obsession and love. Exceptional

This is a compelling story with lots of twists. Made me laugh and also think

Another excellent, engaging read from Moriarty, who specialises in changing the way you see everything

A breezy thriller

Praise for Liane Moriarty

Every single one of her books is a great read

Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly

One of the few writers I'll drop anything for

Keeps you guessing until the very end

Staggeringly brilliant, literally unputdownable

The writing is beautiful: sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always compelling

So well written that it pulls you in from the first page

A hell of a good book

A tense, page-turning story

I devoured it, loved it and totally escaped into it

Compulsive

Entertaining

Darkly humorous

Dramatic, mysterious and compelling

Accelerates with intensity and sheer originality with every page

Will grab readers and refuse to let go. An author to watch

It kept me guessing to the end

A darkly droll page-turner

It was beautifully crafted and once I had the book open I didn't close it until I had read the last page.

This book touched me to the heart – quite beautiful and exceptionally moving, and one of the very best books I’ve read this year.

When the book finished, I felt an immense sadness that I had to say goodbye to these two people.

I loved the setting and the characters were great, it was a pleasure to read.

Few books ever have that much impact on me and I feel this is something that everyone needs to experience.

A beautiful, lyrical love story, played out with words and paper.

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Gentle, moving, joyous

Full of insight and sympathy. It is also highly absorbing — partly because of Tyler’s evocative style (when Micah considers his past, he is “visited by a kind of translucent scarf of a memory floating down upon him”), but mostly because of the intimacy with which she depicts the workings of Micah’s heart and mind...a quiet revelation

In wonderful prose, Tyler drills deep into a very ordinary life, familiar struggles, and a quiet heroism

Anne Tyler's masterful new novel asks what it might take for an unhappy man to change his life... her longevity means that her work has become a record of a certain kind of America, especially of "the dailiness of women's lives", for the past half century.

A quiet and beautiful story about human relationships, written with intent observation, empathy and humour

A timely reminder of what matters: kindness and love

This gloriously warm novel felt heaven-sent when it appeared in deepest lockdown

A new book from this wonderful writer is always a joy... Tyler packs feeling and insight into every single sentence

I adored Redhead by the Side of the Road... It is so subtle, and so brilliant as are all Tyler's novels... Witty and warm, its only fault was that I wanted it to be twice as long!

Tender and beautifully paced

Compassionate and alert to the complexities in even the most ordinary lives, the book reminds us why, at 79, Tyler is held in such high regard

The qualities that have long won Tyler admiration and affection - wry humour, shrewd perception, characters who leap off the page with authenticity - are in generous supply

You can't go wrong with Anne Tyler. She makes it look easy creating characters that feel so believable, so three-dimensional

Tyler engrosses with the 'and-thenand-then' of domestic detail

I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler . . . She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that

Tyler's irresistibly readable 23rd novel follows Micah, a socially inept, OCD-ish IT man whose orderly life is turned upside down by the arrival of a son

Tyler's affectionate and quietly observant novel reveals her deep empathy for the hidden struggles of everyday lives

Another shrewd yet kindly novel about the mysterious business of family life by one of the world's great writers

A charmingly offbeat love story

The narration here is a joy: you will be leaning towards the speaker to catch every nuance of Tyler's gently comediccharacterstudy of the Baltimore bachelor and fix-it man Micah Mortimer