A Slipping Down Life: A compelling portrait of small-town life, teenage obsession and fractured dreams from the Sunday Times bestselling author
Apr 2012 · Random House
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From Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler, a novel about first love, dangerous obsession and unintended consequences.
'Anne Tyler really is the best' GRAHAM NORTON
Evie Decker is used to being invisible. Then, one night, she hears a voice on the radio that compels her to commit an act that will change her quiet, small-town life.
Magnetic singer Bertram ‘Drumstrings’ Casey can’t ignore her now – but will marriage to a rockstar really be everything that Evie dreamed of?
Raw and poignant, with the quiet observational power that has brought millions of readers to Anne Tyler, A Slipping Down Life is a story of loneliness, desire and the fragile line between fantasy and reality.
‘She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE MORIARTY
'If Anne Tyler isn’t the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC R4 WOMAN'S HOUR
'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' MONICA ALI
'My favourite writer' NICK HORNBY
'Our greatest chronicler of family life' DAILY MAIL
'I love Anne Tyler' JACQUELINE WILSON
'Anne Tyler really is the best' GRAHAM NORTON
Evie Decker is used to being invisible. Then, one night, she hears a voice on the radio that compels her to commit an act that will change her quiet, small-town life.
Magnetic singer Bertram ‘Drumstrings’ Casey can’t ignore her now – but will marriage to a rockstar really be everything that Evie dreamed of?
Raw and poignant, with the quiet observational power that has brought millions of readers to Anne Tyler, A Slipping Down Life is a story of loneliness, desire and the fragile line between fantasy and reality.
‘She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE MORIARTY
'If Anne Tyler isn’t the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC R4 WOMAN'S HOUR
'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' MONICA ALI
'My favourite writer' NICK HORNBY
'Our greatest chronicler of family life' DAILY MAIL
'I love Anne Tyler' JACQUELINE WILSON
From Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler, a novel about first love, dangerous obsession and unintended consequences.
'Anne Tyler really is the best' GRAHAM NORTON
Evie Decker is used to being invisible. Then, one night, she hears a voice on the radio that compels her to commit an act th...
About the author
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, A Spool of Blue Thread, Redhead by the Side of the Road and Three Days in June.
She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'.
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, A Spool of Blue Thread, Redhead by the Side of the Road and Three Days in Ju...
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