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A Spool Of Blue Thread

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  • Booker Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2015)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2015)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780701189525
Authors: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Date of Publication: 2015-02-10
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.44
(rated by 94156 readers)

Description

‘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 day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home. They’ve all come, even Denny, who can usually be relied on only to please himself.From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are. And while all families like to believe they are special, round that kitchen table over all those years we also see played out our own hopes and fears, rivalries and tensions – the essential nature of family life.
 
  • Booker Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2015)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2015)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.