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Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises - a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, Noahs Compass chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times.With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who doesnt venture far from home) Anne Tylers new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, hes just been let go from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night.Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. An unpleasant event occurs, though, to jolt him out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that
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