A Spool of Blue ThreadBy: Anne Tyler **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE** '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. From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that