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...Ann Patchett once told an interviewer that she has been writing the same book all her life....
...Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake (Bloomsbury, 11 hrs 22 mins) might seem an unlikely choice: a woman in her fifties retells the gripping events of a summer from her youth to her three daughters, to pass the time...
...Now try this I’ve just finished Ann Patchett’s latest novel Tom Lake — I took a while to warm to it, and at first, only the fact I was gripped by the plot, and my general affection for all things Patchett...
...Outside of a handful of trusted authors with new books out — Zadie Smith, Linda Grant, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett — I have confined myself to reading old loves and factual accounts....
...Ann Patchett is a brilliant writer — Bel Canto is perhaps her best-known novel — but I can’t help thinking she’d be even more lauded if she were a man....
...Featuring Mary Barra, chief executive of GM, by the FT’s Rana Foroohar, and author Barbara Kingsolver by fellow writer Ann Patchett. One more thing . . ....
...Margot Robbie by Emerald Fennell | Beyoncé by Oprah Winfrey | Barbara Kingsolver by Ann Patchett | Phoebe Philo by Gabrielle Boucinha | Lola Shoneyin by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Alia Bhatt by Shubhra Gupta...
...Aled Patchett, head of retail and consumer goods at Lloyds Bank, said that despite challenges persisting, “retailers will hope three bank holidays, warmer weather and recovering confidence could be the tailwind...
...“December’s fall in sales suggests consumers didn’t see Christmas or the World Cup as strong enough incentives to loosen the purse strings,” said Aled Patchett, head of retail and consumer goods at Lloyds...
...The keystone of the book is a 66-page account on the close friendship that sprang up between Patchett and Sooki Raphael, assistant to the actor Tom Hanks, who lived in Patchett’s home for several months...
...Adverse weather “was another unfortunate blow for the high street,” said Aled Patchett, head of retail and consumer goods at Lloyds Bank, adding that the government’s decision to extend Covid-19 restrictions...
...which in October reported its strongest first-half profit in more than a decade, will campaign to get readers to return to bookshops once restrictions lift, with authors such as Khaled Hosseini and Ann Patchett...
...New York faces its most serious economic crisis in decades, Mr Patchett notes, but the city’s part of the anti-flood funding is secured....
...Next on my list is Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, about a pair of siblings over the course of half a century who live in the shadow of their childhood home....
...“It is stunning the number of people whose uncle’s best friend’s cousin is a mask manufacturer in China and can give you 3m masks at cost,” said NYCEDC’s Mr Patchett....
...Novelist Ann Patchett wrote in 2003 that real intimacy was “not the person who calls to say, ‘I’m having an affair’; it’s the friend who calls to say, ‘Why do I have four jars of pickles in my refrigerator...
...There is something of the ailing martyr about this character, however vital and forceful Patchett clearly intends her to be....
...In contrast, Ann Patchett’s novel The Dutch House (Bloomsbury) is all about the danger of stasis, and of attempting to root a fractured family in a single, claustrophobic space....
...Aled Patchett, head of retail and consumer goods at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said it was “disappointing” that early discounting by retailers had failed to encourage consumers to spend....
...In case you missed it, I really enjoyed her interview with novelist Ann Patchett ahead of the debut of Little Fires Everywhere, a series based on the novel by Celeste Ng....
...Erica Wagner FT contributor Ann Patchett’s The Magician’s Assistant is my choice. A book about love and grief and the redemptive power of kindness; surely what we need now....
...You could make the argument that this is really Franny’s book; she has the troubled, questing quality that often marks out Patchett’s female leads....
...One of my favourite novels of this year is Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth....
...Jean Patchett (left) and Carmen Dell’Orefice model Ceil Chapman eveningwear in front of a back-drop inspired by Matisse’s ‘Jazz’, photographed for Vogue by Cecil Beaton, 1949Cecil Beaton\/Condé Nast via...
...Sittenfeld is an obvious comparison to make here, as is Ann Patchett....
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