All the family are there, even Denny, who can generally be relied on to do only what pleases him.įrom that moment we spool backwards through the generations, savouring the moments which made the people as individuals and family as a whole what it is. Abby and Red are ageing - even the glorious house is beginning to show its age - and decisions have to be made about how to look after them. It would usually be told on the porch of the Baltimore house which Red's father had built, but on this final time of its telling the circumstances are different. Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeĮvery family has its tales which are told and retold and in the Whitshank family it was the story of how Abby and Red had fallen in love one beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon in July 1959.
Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 Summary: Some say that this is Tyler's best book: I'm not certain about that, but it's certainly an engaging read which stays with you and keeps giving long after you've finished reading.
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