Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) - Softcover

"It's knockabout comedy at its best, genuinely laugh-out-loud funny and, indeed, may be her funniest book to date" (John Harding Daily Mail)

"There is much to of Tyler's trademark wit and sharp observation here. She shifts effortlessly from humour to pathos and creates emotion without any hint of sentimentality ... Funny and poignant" (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express)

"The terrifically talented author is the latest to tackle Shakespeare for the Hogarth series ... In her modern take on The Taming of the Shrew, Kate is a university drop-out whose scientist dad is pushing her to marry his lab assistant so he can stay in the country. But will this bright, independent woman sacrifice herself? Like the original, the heroine is pleasingly acerbic and her happy ending is anything but conventional" (Good Housekeeping)

"Funny, thought-provoking, essential" (The Sunday Telegraph (Stella))

"Enjoy this wry, wise, hilarious take on the relations between men and women, and Tyler’s loving feminism untinged with bitterness" (Jane O’Grady The Oldie)

Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times & Guardian *** As read on Radio 4 *** `You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that' Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work - her pre-school charges adore her, but the adults don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There's only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr... When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying - as usual - on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he's really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men's touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round? Anne Tyler's retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. The answer is as individual, off-beat and funny as Kate herself. 'I loved Kate and Pyotr and the way they discover the oversized, tender, irreverent relationship that fits them... It is joyful' Rachel Joyce `Read her books and she can actually change your view, change how you see the world' Judy Finigan, Mail on Sunday `Tyler writes with an apparent effortlessness which conceals great art' Helen Dunmore, Stylist `Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and impossible to duplicate' Hanya Yanigihara, Observer `A new novel from Tyler is always a treat' Daily Mail