The Clock Winder

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<p>'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,<i>Daily Mail</i></p><p>Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons - there are seven grown-up children - have a reputation for craziness and Elizabeth finds herself drawn into their disorderly lives against her will. But in the end it is hard to tell whether she is a victim of the needy Emersons, or the<i>de facto</i>ruler of the family.</p> <p><b>OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD</b></p><p>Shes changed my perception on life Anna Chancellor</p><p>One of my favourite authors Liane Moriarty</p><p>She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan</p><p>Anne Tyler has no peer Anita Shreve</p><p>My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world Nick Hornby</p><p>A masterly author Sebastian Faulks</p><p>Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good John Updike</p><p>I love Anne Tyler Anita Brookner</p><p>Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour Eudora Welty</p>

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<p>Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include<i>Breathing Lessons,</i><i>The Accidental Tourist</i>,<i>Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant</i>,<i>Ladder of Years</i>,<i>Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread</i>and Vinegar Girl.</p><p>In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for<i>Breathing Lessons</i>; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015<i>A Spool of Blue Thread</i>was a<i>Sunday Times</i>bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.</p>

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