{"product_id":"anne-tyler-noahs-compass-2009-hardback","title":"Anne Tyler: Noah's Compass [2009] hardback","description":"Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises - a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, \"Noah's Compass\" chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic \"The Accidental Tourist\" (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. An unpleasant event occurs, though, to jolt him out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that brings its own thorny problems.\u003cbr\u003eHis ex-wife (sensible Barbara) and daughters worry about him but Liam blunders on, His teenage daughter Kitty is sent to stay - though it's not clear who is minding whom. His middle daughter, Louise, is a born-again Christian with a son called Jonah, but her certainties leave Liam still more perplexed. \"Noah's Compass\" is about memory and its loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes aware that merely trying to stay afloat may not be enough.","brand":"Tyler, Anne","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":54236753756499,"sku":"9780701184230","price":25.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":54236753723731,"sku":"XV80701184230","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/9780701184230.jpg?v=1783533461","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/anne-tyler-noahs-compass-2009-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}