The hilarious new novel from the bestselling author ofA Spool of Blue Thread
'A thoroughly modern love story'Guardian, Books of the Year
Kate Battista is stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister Bunny?
Dr Battista has other problems. His brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, his new scientific breakthrough will fall through
When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, hes relying as usual on Kate to help him. Will Kate be able to resist the two mens touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round?
Anne Tylers brilliant retelling ofThe Taming of the Shrewasks whether a thoroughly modern woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. The answer is as surprising as Kate herself.
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels includeBreathing 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 Threadand Vinegar Girl.
In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize forBreathing 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 2015A Spool of Blue Threadwas aSunday Timesbestseller and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize.
