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‘A faultless novel, effortlessly profound.

‘Anne Tyler really is the best… Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless’ GRAHAM NORTON ‘Exquisitely crafted, tender, hilarious, devastatingly precise, I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life’ RACHEL JOYCE The family members have grown apart over the. The novel follows the Garrett family on their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. ‘She is and always will be my favourite author’ LIANE MORIARTY Book club questions for French Braid by Anne Tyler explore the themes of family dynamics, forgiveness, and the impact of past events on our present lives. ‘Gorgeous, charming, profound, and written with such lightness of touch’ MARIAN KEYES The glorious Sunday Times bestseller follows one family’s joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today It’s the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations.

For Mercy it all begins in 1959, with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. Not even their cat, Desmond.īut it turns out family life is impossible to escape – particularly when it’s in your past. When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.Īll she wants is space and silence.