‘What a wonderful, natural writer she is... she knows all the secrets of the human heart’ MONICA ALI

‘My favourite author... She writes such absorbing, wise, tender books, devastatingly acute about human nature... She never fails’ JACQUELINE WILSON

‘Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good’ JOHN UPDIKE

‘She is and always will be my favourite author’ LIANE MORIARTY

‘Anne Tyler has the ability to take the minutiae of characters’ lives and say wise things about the human condition that other writers can only dream of’ STYLIST

‘Anne Tyler really is the best... Her sheer brilliance makes it all seem so effortless’ GRAHAM NORTON

‘If Anne Tyler isn’t the best writer in the world, who is?’ BBC RADIO 4, WOMAN’S HOUR

‘Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing’ RACHEL JOYCE

‘My favourite writer’ NICK HORNBY

‘Tyler writes with an apparent effortlessness which conceals great art’ HELEN DUNMORE

‘What Tyler does best is to illuminate that life is not about what one achieves but how one gets to that point’ JODI PICOULT

‘Tyler’s sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate’ HANYA YANIGIHARA

‘Astonishing’ CAITLIN MORAN

‘A masterly author’ SEBASTIAN FAULKS

‘One of my favourite writers’ ALI SMITH

‘The Greatest Living Novelist? Easy. It’s Anne Tyler’ JOHN BOYNE