For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life’s earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she never expected, as a young bank robber takes her hostage, and they head south for Florida in a stolen car.OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLDShes changed my perception on life Anna ChancellorOne of my favourite authors Liane MoriartyShe spins gold’ Elizabeth BuchanAnne Tyler has no peer Anita ShreveMy favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world Nick HornbyA masterly author Sebastian FaulksTyler is not merely good, she is wickedly good John UpdikeI love Anne Tyler Anita BrooknerHer fiction has strength of vision, originality, freshness, unconquerable humour Eudora Welty