The Amateur Marriage

A brilliant writer...funny, tragic, wise

Lynne Truss, Independent

A warm, compelling read - and another brilliant showcase for Tyler's talent for taking a common experience and lifting it out of the ordinary

Daily Mirror

The meanings of this beautifully written novel reach far wider than Baltimore. I shed a tear as I finished the Antons' story

Paul Barker, Evening Standard

Mesmerising

The Economist

Tyler's compelling, moving and often amusing tale is the story of any marriage - every page brings a smile of recognition to the reader

Daily Mail

The Amateur Marriage is an elegantly pared-down sister to Jonathan Franzen's brilliant The Corrections. This is hugely readable fiction, full of more than incidental delights

Sunday Telegraph

Anne Tyler is a formidably skilful story-teller, with every narrative trick at her effortless command

Daily Telegraph

Tyler is an exquisite chronicler of the everyday. Her fiction is a quiet, gentle reminder of the goodness to be found in most ordinary lives. In a noisy, violent world, this is surely not to be sniffed at - and neither is her extremely fine writing

Observer