Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler - ISBN: 9781784878870
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Modern Shrew’s tale: sacrifice, love, and a scientist’s crazy plan.
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Vinegar Girl

The Taming of the Shrew, Retold

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    30 June 2026

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Summary

SHAKESPEARE RETOLD

Nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.

Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is hilariously reimagined by one of our greatest living novelists, in this very funny, heartbreaking story of one woman, two men, and unconventional happy endings.

Kate Battista is stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister, Bunny? D…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784878870
ISBN-10:1784878871
Author:Anne Tyler
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:30 June 2026
Weight:192g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 19mm
Series:Shakespeare Retold
About The Author

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include Breathing Lessons, The Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back When We Were Grown-ups, Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread, Clock Dance, and Redhead by the Side of the Road.

In 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as ‘the greatest novelist writing in English’. In 2012 she received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. In 2015 A Spool of Blue Thread was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize. In 2020 Redhead by the Side of the Road was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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