Ladder of Years

p>b>One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. /b>br>br>After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her?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 Joycebr>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> p>b>One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. /b>br>br>After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds her?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 Joycebr>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>