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Clock Dance

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Willa Drake has always done what others expected of her...until a startling phone call offers her the chance to start again.

Willa 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.

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.

**ANNE TYLER HAS SOLD OVER 8 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**

'Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing' Rachel Joyce

'She knows all the secrets of the human heart' Monica Ali

'A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks

'I love Anne Tyler. I've read every single book she's written' Jacqueline Wilson

Editions (2)

ISBN9781784708597
PublisherRandom House UK Ltd
Publication Date07/11/19
Pages363

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  • milena.ejk
    milena.ejk

    41 Followers

    3.0

    Ich habe gewartet,

    ..auf das feministische Erwachen von Willa. So lange gewartet. Die Geschichte ist ein wenig an den Haaren herbeigezogen und eine unrealistische Situation. Den Anfang aus den 60ern und 70ern mochte ich mehr. Es war trotzdem ein angenehmes Buch.

    Ich habe gewartet,

    Nov 18, 2025

  • boyle_s_muse
    boyle_s_muse

    2 Followers

    5.0

    Ein warmesherziger Roman, besonders am zum Ende. Eine wirklich tolle Geschichte über das Leben von Willa, was nicht immer leicht war, aber dennoch geprägt war von wunderbaren Menschen. Anna Tyler schafft es über die Themen Verlust, Einsamkeit, Familie und die 'Launen der Zeit' zu sprechen.

    Dec 21, 2025

  • finellibooks
    finellibooks

    92 Followers

    4.0

    Nettes, kurzweiliges Büchlein. Authentische und teils etwas verschrobene Charaktere, fein beobachtete Alltagssituationen, Protagonistin meisterhaft porträtiert- verklemmte Haltung war fast körperlich spürbar 😅

    Mar 14, 2023

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