Clock Dance

<p><b>A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling award-winning author of <i>French Braid</i></b><br><br>Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: her mother's disappearance when she was just a child being proposed to at an airport at the age of twenty-one the accident that would leave her a widow in her forties. Each time Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.<br><br>So when she receives a phone call from a stranger informing her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman and her nine-year-old daughter leads Willa into uncharted territory and the eventual realisation that it's never too late to choose your own path.<br><br><b>**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**</b><br><br><b>'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary the small and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce<br><br>'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali </b><br><br><b>'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks</b><br><br><b>'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson</b></p>