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Who needs a plot? asks Anne Tyler

21 July 2018

9:00 AM

21 July 2018

9:00 AM

Willa Drake’s second husband calls her ‘little one’, even though she is over 60 and the mother of two grown boys. After a troubled childhood in Lark City, Pennsylvania, she married at 21, stopped studying after her first pregnancy and was widowed with teenage children when her first husband was killed in a road-rage incident of his own making.

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