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In a small Southern town teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their two lives become unforgettably entwined in this remarkable novel.
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‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor
‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty
‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan
‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve
‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby
‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks
‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike
‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner
‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty
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In a small Southern town, teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead, their two lives become unforgettably entwined.
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"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)
"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)
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- Publication date1990
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- ISBN 13 9780099517504
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