Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Her best novel * Guardian *
Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer * Observer *
A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise…superb * New York Times Book Review *
The most impressive American novelist of her generation * Sunday Telegraph *
A classic of contemporary Americana…variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving * Los Angeles Times *
[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write. -- Nick Hornby * UK Press Syndication *
The best of Tyler's many excellent books * Daily Telegraph THE 100 GREATEST NOVELS OF ALL TIME *
I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, but to be honest, anything by Tyler will do. She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a proper family saga filled with beady but compassionate takes on all of the unforgettable characters. Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that -- Hadley Freeman * Good Housekeeping *
Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry * Sunday Telegraph *
Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment * New York Times Book Review *