Back When We Were Grown-ups

Author Anne Tyler
Narrator Blair Brown
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 3 July 2014
Run Time 8 hours and 57 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life.

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What to expect

One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person. Is she really this joyous and outgoing organiser of parties, the put-upon heart of her dead husband's extended family? What happened to her quiet and serious nineteen-year-old self, and what would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? Can someone ever recover the person they've left behind?

Critics Review

Beautifully observed… Effortlessly brilliant

Daily Telegraph

Like all great writers, Tyler creates her own world…she is that rare being: a writer so good that she lets you forget it. If you’re one of the few who’s yet to discover her, don’t waste any more time: this ranks among her best

Daily Mail

Superb… Beautifully conceived, masterfully executed… Out of the emotional confusions spawned by dislocated, dysfunctional families, Anne Tyler has produced – yet again – a scintillating comedy of manners

Sunday Telegraph

Her touch, whether comic, wry or tragic, is as subtle as goose down… An insight bordering on genius… Tyler, of the fresh, almost conversational prose, sharp dialogue and all too much human truth, really is one of the wisest and most perceptive observers crafting fiction as life

Irish Times

One of her very best

Mail on Sunday

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