Meet Maggie Moran Nearing fifty & married with two children she & her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day During the course of the journey with its several unexpected detours into the lives of old friends & grown children Maggie's eternal optimism & her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives & willing them to fall in love is severely tested 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