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  • Published: 24 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473574564
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 30 min
  • Narrators: Tara Ward, Amy Finegan, Barbara Barnes, Julie Rogers, Francine Brody

Celestial Navigation





From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Celestial Navigation is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler’s books in striking new backlist style

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Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy batchelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make mosaic sculptures - until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage and Digging to America.

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  • Published: 24 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473574564
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 30 min
  • Narrators: Tara Ward, Amy Finegan, Barbara Barnes, Julie Rogers, Francine Brody

About the author

Anne Tyler

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, Back When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Vinegar Girl and Clock Dance.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.

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Praise for Celestial Navigation

A rich, revolutionary novel...she writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion

The Times

Anne Tyler's talent is to make extraordinary characters entirely credible... So unfaltering is their story that every word is convincing

Sunday Times

Tyler has created two characters at once entirely original and entirely convincing...a quiet but immensely strong novel, to admire and treasure

Sunday Telegraph
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