Clock Dance

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<p><b>A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the<i>Sunday Times</i>bestselling, award-winning author of<i>A Spool of Blue Thread</i></b></p><p>Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.</p><p>So when she receives a phone call telling her that her sons ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter, and her dog will lead Willa into uncharted territory. Surrounded by new and surprising neighbours, she is plunged into the rituals that make a community, and takes pleasure in the most unexpected things.</p><p>A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal,<i>Clock Dance</i>brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides its never too late to change direction, and choose your own path.</p><p>'She is and always will be my favourite author' Liane Moriarty</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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