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Born in Minneapolis in 1941, Anne Tyler lives in Baltimore where her novels are set. She is the Pulitzer-prize winning author of Breathing Lessons and other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Saint Maybe, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage and most recently Digging to America.
As exquisitely observed and quietly brilliant as the rest of Tyler's fiction -- Joanna Briscoe * Guardian * Anne Tyler draws a comedy that is not so much brilliant as luminous - its observant sharpness sweetened by a generous understanding of human fallibility -- Jane Shilling * Daily Telegraph * Noah's Compass is immensely readable. It displays many of Tyler's finest qualities: her sharp observation of humanity, her wry comedy; the luminous accuracy of her descriptions... a novel by Anne Tyler is cause for celebration -- Caroline Moore * Sunday Telegraph * Anne Tyler is a novelist who has elevated pitch-perfect observation of everyday detail into an art form... a beautifully subtle book, an elegant contemplation of what it means to be happy and the consequences of a defensive withdrawal from other people -- Elizabeth Day * Observer * One of my favourite authors, one of the very few I rush out to buy in hardback. -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
