A Spool of Blue Thread (Paperback)

**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

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Anne Tyler
Dimensions:	200 x 130 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	465
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-959848-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-09-959848-5
Barcode:	9780099598480

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Good read

Sun, 12 Feb 2017 | Review by: Marion York R.

Spans 4 generations of a family in Baltimore (1920 to present) - centred around their home. So well written and clever about family issues recognisable to all

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