One warm summer's day at the beach forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead dressed only in a swimsuit & beach robe walks away from her family & just keeps on going After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties & begins living a new life altogether But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her?OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLDShe's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor One of my favourite authors ' Liane Moriarty She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve My favourite writer & the best line-&-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks Tyler is not merely good she is wickedly good' John Updike I love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner Her fiction has strength of vision originality freshness unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty