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What the critics say

A terrific writer... She's changed my perception on life'
- Anna Chancellor

Deeply rewarding novel about grief and hope, infused with gentle humour
- Sunday Times

A near flawless novel of love and loss ... exquisitely poignant but unsentimental
- Sunday Herald

She's a master storyteller and inventor of character
- Daily Express

This novel's great achievement is to capture the tensions and subtleties of a married life cut short… I read it virtually in one sitting, but that's a fairly common experience with Anne Tyler books… I didn't want it to end. Which is also a fairly common Tyler thing
- Independent on Sunday

Richer and more alive than the best work almost any other writer is producing
- Daily Telegraph

Brilliantly observed and mercifully unsentimental
- The Times

Yet again she has articulated the supreme difficulties of human communication in a calmly insightful exploration of love and truth, grief and reality.
- Irish Times

Her stories are quite unlike anyone else's
- Daily Telegraph

Tyler writes with a generosity of spirit and an emotional truthfulness that makes you forget the bare mechanics of plot
- Week

A perfectly judged and brilliantly executed novel of loss and recovery
- Woman & Home

All Hail Anne Tyler
- Sunday Times

Tyler uses simple, elegant prose to manifest her particular brands of realism and humour
- Independent

Such clear-eyed acceptance of life's fragility, and such a delicate way with it: this attitude lies behind all of Tyler's work
- TLS

Tyler strips away layers of everyday life to reveal the abyss of pain underneath but does so with such skill and sparkling wit it makes this a real celebration of life.
- Daily Express

A simple, subtle and really honest account of how one man, Aaron, deals with the darkly comic death of his dumpy, clever and brilliant wife Dorothy... I finished it in one sitting.
- Stylist

A perfectly judged and brilliantly executed novel of loss and recovery.
- Woman & Home

Tyler distilled.
- Lady

What could be mawkish and cloying is gentle and touching, not least because she is a very funny writer.
- Financial Times

The ending teeters on the brink of sentimentality but such is her psychological insight, the truth of her writing, that if she says unlikely happy endings are possible, I believe her.
- Sunday Express

This meticulous, gently humorous novel is concerned with the effects of grief, the stop-start nature of moving on and the role of friendships, however imperfect, in facing catastrophe. [Tyler] remains as gimlet-eyed as ever in portraying ordinary lives that have become unmoored.
- Metro

This novel's great achievement is to capture the tensions and subtleties of a married life cut short… I read [it] virtually in one sitting, but that's a fairly common experience with Anne Tyler books… I didn't want it to end. Which is also a fairly common Tyler thing.
- Independent on Sunday

The Beginner’s Goodbye is a very funny book … every incident is at once recognizably true to life and yet somehow utterly off-kilter.
- Times Literary Supplement

Brims with wry perceptiveness and rueful humour
- Sunday Times (Books of the Year)

Tyler's playful humour imbues this unsentimental portrait of a mismatched marriage
- Independent

A bittersweet, utterly beguiling story of love and loss from a brilliant writer
- Mail on Sunday

It begins with one of those sentences that impels you to read on…Tyler’s haunting tale of love and loss is intelligent, unsentimental and often wryly funny
- The Lady

Deceptively easy prose
- Glasgow Sunday Herald

A lovely, stylish way to write a novel about marriage
- Evening Standard

A beautifully poignant portrait of marriage, loss and grief
- Good Housekeeping

Exhibit[s] all the delicious readability that admirers of Tyler expect
- Independent on Sunday