A Spool of Blue Thread A Spool of Blue Thread

A Spool of Blue Thread

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2015

    • 3.9 • 90 Ratings
    • £6.99

Publisher Description

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**

'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 summer's day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.

From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red's father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red's grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century - four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home...

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce

'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali


'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks

'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
10 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
480
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House
SIZE
2.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Night reader5am ,

Another glorious family story

Anne Tyler turned the story of the people here back to front, which slightly annoyed me, but I think she did it to emphasise the effect they had on each other's lives and character. And it worked splendidly. As usual she draws her family members with consummate skill, using everyday details to sharpen the picture so they seem to stand up out of the book, and the story flows along around them. Brilliant, - I loved it, but of course I love all her books.

Zenobie G ,

Zenobie G

Awful, boring tedious book.

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