A Spool of Blue Thread'A new novel from Tyler is always a treat and this is her best in years' Mail on Sunday **THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015** 'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow and green afternoon' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer's day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.