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Jeremy Pauling is a bachelor with a passion for making sculptures out of odds and ends, and a terror of beautiful women. So when his new lodger, Mary Tell, arrives, Jeremy is faced with a challenge he really can't handle... "Anne Tyler's talent is to make extraordinary characters entirely credible... So unfalteringly is their story told that every word is convincing", "Sunday Times" "She writes with virtuosity and perfect confidence, insight and compassion", "The Times" "Tyler has created two characters at once entirely original and entirely convincing... a quiet but immensely strong novel, to admire and treasure", "Sunday Telegraph"