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Celestial Navigation

Discover the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Sunday Times bestselling author

Anne Tyler author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:1st Feb '96

Should be back in stock very soon

Celestial Navigation cover

From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Celestial Navigation is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style

Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy batchelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make mosaic sculptures, until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down.

'A rich, revolutionary novel...she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion' The Times

Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make small collages - until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down.

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce

'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali


'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks

'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson

A rich, revolutionary novel...she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion * The Times *
Anne Tyler's talent is to make extraordinary characters entirely credible... So unfaltering is their story that every word is convincing * Sunday Times *
Tyler has created two characters at once entirely original and entirely convincing...a quiet but immensely strong novel, to admire and treasure * Sunday Telegraph *

ISBN: 9780099480112

Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 19mm

Weight: 233g

288 pages