num_pages: 326
description: On a beach holiday,forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in swimsuit and beachrobe, walks away from her family and just keeps on walking...OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLD‘She’s changed my perception on life’ Anna Chancellor ‘One of my favourite authors ’ Liane Moriarty‘She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan‘Anne Tyler has no peer’ Anita Shreve‘My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world’ Nick Hornby‘A masterly author’ Sebastian Faulks‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ John Updike‘I love Anne Tyler’ Anita Brookner‘Her fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour’ Eudora Welty
language: English
title: Ladder of Years
titlecomplete: Ladder of Years
genres: Fiction, Family, Womens, Literature, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Womens Fiction
ratings_count: 17448
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist
publisher: Vintage