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Saint Maybe

Anne Tyler author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:17th Sep '92

Should be back in stock very soon

Saint Maybe cover

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

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes.

'Compulsively readable, realistic, funny, touching' The Times

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes. Consumed by guilt Ian finds the hope of forgiveness at the Church of the Second Chance, and leaves college to cope with the three children he has inherited and his own embarrassing religion.

Twenty years on, Ian's prospects of a second chance are receding fast when, out of the heart of the domesticity that has engulfed him, strides a new figure who will bring him new life.

**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

Anne Tyler likes to break America's heart, and she will do it again in Saint Maybe * New York Times *
Compulsively readable, realistic, funny, touching * The Times *
Saint Maybe shows Anne Tyler at the peak of her power - a real slice of middle America, blessed with equal amounts of humour, pathos and compassion that will ensure heartfelt devotion from all her readers * Time Out *
A brilliant writer of emotionally sophisticated novels, funny, tragic, wise
One of the truest writers alive * Sunday Times *

ISBN: 9780099914709

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 28mm

Weight: 367g

464 pages