If Morning Ever Comes

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The audio edition of If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler.

Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram. He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears his eldest sister Joanne has left her husband and returned home with her baby girl. Out of a mixture of homesickness and duty Ben Joe returns to the home in which he has always felt like an outsider.

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Critics Review

  • Funny, serious, touching, zany, delightful, revealing…a triumph of perception

    Harper's

  • Anne Tyler has won herself a devoted following. Rightly so: her novels are beautifully controlled, witty, subtle, with an undercurrent of human warmth

    Sunday Telegraph

  • She is a writer who gets to the heart of the matter without being glib, and cleverly reveals the extraordinary in seemingly ordinary lives

    Daily Mail

  • Anne Tyler’s touch is deft, her perceptions keen, her ear for speech phenomenal, her people triumphantly alive… Only a rarely talented novelist could have written this fine book

    New York Times

  • Her fiction is a quiet, gentle reminder of the goodness to be found in most ordinary lives

    Observer

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