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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
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Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it, secrets.

A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists, now available as an audiobook.

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Critic reviews

Her best novel
Anne Tyler is a brilliant writer
A book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise…superb
The most impressive American novelist of her generation
A classic of contemporary Americana…variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving
[It is] Beautiful, funny, real, absorbing – Anne Tyler is the writer who made me want to write. (Nick Hornby)
The best of Tyler's many excellent books
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)
Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry
Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment
All stars
Most relevant
The characters of this book seemed alive to me. I am so sad I will not be meeting them again. I can't fault it, the simple but perfectly honed prose, the absolutely perfect characterisation, the development of the family in time and the very gentle dénouement. I loved it!!! ( I had given up on my three previous downloads so I am a harsh critic!) Recommend highly

A masterpiece!

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I read this book and listened to other parts walking. I enjoyed the story and the characters are well drawn. It has a haunting elegiac tone throughout. I found myself drawn into the book.
I enjoyed the lady’s voice but perhaps some of the voices were a little forced. Highly recommended

Affecting narratives

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I was looking forward to this story but found the narrator's voice too annoying to stick it out. Maybe I will buy the book?

I couldn't put up with the narrator

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This is one of my favourite books by Ann Tyler. A beautifully performed story about a family who eventually managed to eat at the Homesick Restaurant.

Everything is perfect

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I love the way she does ordinary. The way people behave in a family without knowing why. Family norms that are actually extraordinary but to them seem part of their routine existance.

The ordinary things extraordinary

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