Noah´s Compass
Anne Tyler
'As exquisitely observed and quietly brilliant as the rest of Tyler's fiction' Guardian
Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory.
In trying to piece together what took place on his first night in a new apartment, Liam finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that brings its own set of thorny problems...
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Reviews for Noah´s Compass
Guardian
Anne Tyler draws a comedy that is not so much brilliant as luminous - its observant sharpness sweetened by a generous understanding of human fallibility
Daily Telegraph
Noah's Compass is immensely readable. It displays many of Tyler's finest qualities: her sharp observation of humanity, her wry comedy; the luminous accuracy of her descriptions... a novel by Anne Tyler is cause for celebration
Sunday Telegraph
Anne Tyler is a novelist who has elevated pitch-perfect observation of everyday detail into an art form... a beautifully subtle book, an elegant contemplation of what it means to be happy and the consequences of a defensive withdrawal from other people
Observer
One of my favourite authors, one of the very few I rush out to buy in hardback.
Mail on Sunday
A brilliant writer... Funny, wise, tragic.
Independent
Tyler brings a scorching wisdom, an understanding of what breaks the human spirit, and the ways in which people try to paper the cracks...Limpidly, singingly written, with dialogue to break a scriptwriter's heart
The Sunday Herald
Prose is as bright and pretty as in her best work. The dialogue crackles and there are insightful observations about the way families create stories to explain themselves
The Times
Her novels have a grace and an emotional depth that few romances can match
Sunday Times
Compassionate and funny dissection of the workings of the human heart
Woman & Home