Morgan's Passing

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You would say he was a man who had gone to pieces...With his house in shambles, and his daughters growing up and leaving him, Morgan Gower needs new roles to play, new lives to enter into. Then comes his first dramatic encounter with Emily Meredith, and the start of an extraordinary obsession.

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons and many other bestselling novels, including The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Saint Maybe, Ladder of Years, A Patchwork Planet, Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America and The Beginner's Goodbye. In 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English' and in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a lifetime's achievement in books. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Vinegar Girl, is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew.

Enchanting * The Times * Tyler writes stunningly well * Daily Telegraph * Tyler has created a world of imaginary people who are as tangible and as real as one's own friends and relatives * New York Times * Alternatively lyrical and rambunctiously comic * Washington Post * An almost flawless story of love... Moran emerges as a true hero * Los Angeles Times * Tyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good -- John Updike Pure magic, a contemporary fairy tale that overflows with affection, mystery and laughter * Washington Star *