Anne Tyler: A Spool of Blue Thread [2015] paperback CHARA Now 100 years old

Now 100 years old

Cross-references and theme boxes allow the reader to follow a particular area of interest throughout the book

Ever since she can remember

It explores the tremendous effect that war experience had on writers' lives and how they came to terms with it after 1918

Anne Tyler: A Spool of Blue Thread [2015] paperback CHARA Now 100 years old**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015** '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