Jeremy is a child-like painfully shy batchelor who has never left home He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house & spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make mosaic sculptures
- until the day his mother dies & the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage & Digging to America 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