Slipping Down Life

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, A Spool of Blue Thread, Redhead by the Side of the Road and Three Days in June. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'.

"Wickedly good" John Updike "Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age" Allison Pearson, Daily Mail "Anne Tyler is inventive, funny and wise. Her fiction is magically alive to the quirks and coincidences of fate" Guardian "Funny and lyrical and true, exquisite in its details and ambitious in its design...rich...warm. The writer is not merely good, she is wickedly good" -- John Updike "Miss Tyler never loses her control. She writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion" The Times