Mercy told the children she’d liked his gentlemanly behavior. Mercy Wellington was the prettiest little thing he’d ever laid eyes on, he told his children, and all the plumbers in Baltimore were crazy about her. By training he was a plumber he used to buy his parts at Wellington’s just so he could catch a glimpse of young Mercy Wellington behind the counter. So of course Robin had to prove himself, working six days a week and bringing the books home every Saturday for Alice’s mother to examine in case he’d slipped up somewhere. It was Grandfather Wellington’s store, was why-Wellington’s Plumbing Supply, turned over to Robin’s care only grudgingly and mistrustfully after Grandfather Wellington had his first heart attack. Also, in the early days he refused to leave the store in anyone else’s hands. Robin Garrett, Alice’s father, said they couldn’t afford one. The Garrett family did not take a family vacation until 1959. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her 11th novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Her 20th novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. ‘A faultless novel, effortlessly profound.The following is excerpted from Anne Tyler's new novel.
‘Anne Tyler really is the best… Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless’ GRAHAM NORTON ‘Exquisitely crafted, tender, hilarious, devastatingly precise, I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life’ RACHEL JOYCE ‘She is and always will be my favourite author’ LIANE MORIARTY ‘Gorgeous, charming, profound, and written with such lightness of touch’ MARIAN KEYES It’s the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations For Mercy it all begins in 1959, with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. Not even their cat, Desmond.īut it turns out family life is impossible to escape – particularly when it’s in your past. When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.Īll she wants is space and silence. French Braid follows one family’s joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today. The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers.
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