Author(s): Anne Tyler

World fiction

A year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his 61st year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny little out of town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on the first night, tucking himself in tightly ... and wakes up in hospital unable to recall how he got there.