Back When We Were Grown-ups: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of French Braid

Anne Tyler masterfully explores issues of love, loss, family and identity as she tells the story of 55 year-old widow Rebecca, who is asking whether she has betrayed her own destiny as she finds herself in the midst of her husband's endlessly gregarious, extended family. "Out of the emotional confusions spawned by dislocated, dysfunctional families, Anne Tyler has produced, yet again, a scintillating comedy of manners" "Sunday Telegraph". 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 Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance and Redhead by the Side of the Road. In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize; and in 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.