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A mild diversion for a wet afternoon: Three Days in June, by Anne Tyler, reviewed

Tyler is known for making the ordinary compelling, but this quiet tale of family relationships is subtle to the point of stupor

Alex Peake-Tomkinson
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Anne Tyler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, is much admired by writers, ranging from Hanya Yanagihara to Nick Hornby, for novels such as The Accidental Tourist (1985) and A Spool of Blue Thread (2015).

In Three Days in June, Tyler’s 25th novel, Gail Baines is not having a good day.

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