The Beginner's Goodbye (by Anne Tyler)

I discovered some of Anne Tyler’s books when we lived in the United States for a couple of years in the early 1990s. But I didn’t begin acquiring some of them for myself  - mostly secondhand - until the turn of the century. I always liked her style, so when I saw one of her books that I had not previously come across, ‘The Beginner’s Goodbye’, at a church book sale, it was an easy decision to buy it. 

The novel sat on my to-be-read shelf for some months - and I’ve just read it in the past couple...