THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK âe~It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoonâe¦âe(tm) This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summerâe(tm)s day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Redâe(tm)s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Redâe(tm)s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century âe" four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their homeâe¦ 'One of my favourite authors' Liane Moriarty 'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve 'Anne Tyler is one of my favourite writers and this is a delicious book' Rachel Joyce