Gail is an assistant head teacher and divorced from Max. Shehas a daughter, Gail, who is about to get married. The story is set around the weekend of Gail's wedding.
Gail is an introvert. Not very social, not always able to read the room to know when she should be showing support or what she should say.
The story begins when her head teacher tells her that she will be having a heart operation and will be leaving the school. Apparently the new head teacher has a favourite assistant teacher that she will bring with her. When asked why, the Head says that Gail is lacking people skills. So Gailmis feeling vulnerable.
As the weekend carries on, other events make Gail feel unwanted or irrelevant. It is 3 days of reflection about how her life will go forward. Her job, her life without Gail, even whether to keep the cat that Max, her ex, has brought for the wedding weekend.
A slow gentle tale showing how we perceive ourself may be harsher than how others do.

Three days in June is a beautifully written story about one weekend in Gail's life. It just so happens that over the course of 3 days Gail leaves her job, attends her only daughter's wedding and has to unexpectedly share her home with her ex-husband and a cat. Tyler has the magical ability to capture the awkwardness, the intense feelings and emotions of everyday life, all while allowing the reader to learn so much more about the characters and how they have become the way they are and emphasise the importance of relationships and only having one life to make the most of. A very quick read that is jam packed with humour and emotion. It's the first I have read by this author, but I look forward to reading more.
With thanks to the author and Netgalley for my Arc version of this book.

Although the writing style appears simple, every word forms part of a picture which brings the characters to life.
Gail is a 61 year old teacher/administrator who walks away from her role after being advised she ‘had no people skills’. The next day is her daughter’s wedding day and her ex husband arrives and asks to stay for the wedding.
Each trivial fact allows the reader to form opinions of the characters and reasons for some of their behaviours.
Anne Tyler writes about people and allows the reader to form their own impressions.
A wonderful book.

I’ve always meant to read an Anne Tyler book, but before now the occasion never arose, I’m now none too pleased that it’s taken me this long to have this pleasure! Tyler writes with a beautifully poetic style that truly makes you feel everything in tandem with the characters on the page. At its heart, this is a simple tale but it is told so poetically that one can’t help but be enthralled.

This was a nice short read! I didn’t love it but I did like it. I enjoyed that it only spanned 3 days and that it captured a small part of their lives.

I didn’t like the choices that all the characters mad but I guess the book showed how messy life can be. I liked that Gail and Max were completely and unapologetically themselves. Although I wasn’t a fan of Debbie and how she treated Gail and Max or the decision she ultimately made.

The ending was really sweet though and I’m glad it ended that way. It was just a little sad that it took the characters so long to come together.

Overall I would recommend it if people are looking for a quick short read.

An average read I enjoyed the story to some extent but it was a very short novello type book and I really like something I can get my teeth into that grips me from the beginning and thus one didn't do it for me. If you fancy a couple of hours reading you this would be nice

What a simple but beautiful story!-I read it in one sitting. Anne Tyler has the gift of writing great characters and storylines and this one has it all. Told over the 3 days of Gail's daughter's wedding so much is packed in to this delightful novella. Highly recommended. Thank you to the publisher, netgalley and author for an advance reading copy.

Gail Baines finds it hard to understand the world around her, she struggles with everyday interactions and finds it easier to quietly leave the room early than be the life and soul of the party. She is worried about her only daughter, Debbie's, wedding and finds out that they want to let her go at work. Just to cap it all her ex-husband, Max, turns up out of the blue expecting bed and board. Max's arrival brings back many memories making Gail wistful for the past. Gentle look at relationships and what makes them tick.

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I love Anne Tyler.

For all I love my horror and my difficult messy women and my gothic fiction, I also just love a quiet book about people just living their lives.

I needed a palette cleanser after my last read and this lovely little novella was perfect.

Three days in June is such a perfect title. A little snapshot of a family’s life on the days around a wedding.

In ways I wish it was longer but I also think it was the perfect length.

A quiet novel about the everyday. I loved it.

This is simply a beautifully written book. The characterisation and story telling is just exemplary and I was completely drawn into the story. I must now read more by Anne Tyler! Thank you - I highly recommend.

If you are familiar with Ann Tyler’s writing you will know to expect a slow burn, focusing in on character, rather than plot. This is another example of Tyler zooming in on a family that is both typical and idiosyncratic as they navigate the 3 days around a family wedding.

Tyler presents us with a prickly protagonist, Gail, someone who is quite emotionally closed and gradually reveals her past, which explains a great deal about her present. You simultaneously want to shake and hug Gail for her inability to show herself emotionally vulnerable and wonder how Max could ever have thought that she ‘hung the moon’.

It is a wonderful piece of writing, deceptively simple yet filled with repressed emotion. A marvellous demonstration of how it is sometimes easier to forgive others than forgive yourself.

With thanks to NetGalley, Ann Tyler and Random House UK, Vintage, Chatto & Windus for an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

As always Anne Tyler's writing is pure joy to read. A short book which was so absorbing, realistic, pulled no punches and totally believable. This could be a story about one of your friends. Gail keeps to herself, gets on with her life but these three days in June are eventful and has Gail looking back over her past and considering her future.
Can't praise it enough!
Many thanks to Netgalley/Anne Tyler/Random House UK for a digital copy of this title. All opinions expressed are my own.

'Three Days in June' is vintage Anne Tyler - a quiet, warm and wise novel about love and family.

This slender novel is narrated by Gail Baines, a divorced and socially awkward assistant school principal in her early 60s; as the title suggests, it unfolds over three days - the day before her daughter's wedding, the wedding itself and the day after. At the start of the novel, Gail learns that she is likely to be out of a job; she then unexpectedly ends up putting her ex-husband Max (and the cat he is fostering) up for the weekend of the wedding. She feels conflicted when their daughter Debbie has a crisis of confidence before her wedding, which causes her to look back on her own marriage to Max and the decisions she made.

Gail makes for an enjoyable narrator - insightful and sometimes acerbic in a way that sometimes reminded me of Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge (like Gail, a maths teacher). She perhaps has a little more self-awareness, though; I enjoyed her reflection that 'Someday I'd like to be given credit for all the times I have not said something that I could have said.' Tyler writes well about the gentle intimacy that can still be found between people who were once married to each other ('those married-couple conversations that continue intermittently for weeks, sometimes, branching out and doubling back and looping into earlier strands like a piece of crochet work'), the pleasure of 'rehashing' social events - and the loneliness of not having someone to do this with.

The novel is also good about the fundamental unknowability of others - as Gail observes of her daughter's new mother-in-law, 'Sometimes when I find out what's on other people's minds I honestly wonder if we all live on totally separate planets'. This is perhaps most true of Gail and Max - at one point Gail incredulously remarks, 'Sixty-five years old and yet he still believed that human beings were capable of change'. But, as in many Tyler novels, it is Gail herself who will ultimately make tentative steps towards changing her life. I loved her reflection that 'I'm too young for this [...] Not too old, as you might expect, but too young, too inept, too uninformed. How come there weren't any grownups around? Why did everyone just assume I knew what I was doing?'

This is a relatively quick but deeply pleasurable read. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an ARC to review.

This could well become a classic. Another great novel from Anne Tyler.. A superb family story with few characters, but in so doing they are fully developed. I romped through this .. Highly recommended…

A perfect palatable novella at just 176 pages, Three Days in June offers a searingly sharp gaze into everyday lives and domestication. Gail is in her early 60s, about to lose her job, and also about to attend her only daughter’s wedding. This book covers three days (in June): the day before, of and after said wedding. Written in an incredibly literary tone full of humanness and sincerity, Tyler showcases the art of mundane storytelling here, deftly touching on the little things that build and shape us into our later years. Gail is confident, funny, insecure, grumpy, caring, uncaring, and she’s all of us, really.

Filled with so many lines that are both charmingly funny and devastatingly true. Anne Tyler reflects relationships so tenderly. 'Three Days in June' was an incredible novella of marriage, motherhood and infidelity.

Three Days in June is a relatively short book relating the coming together of two families at a wedding. The main character is the bride's mother a slightly prickly lady in her early sixties who seems vaguely disappointed with her life. We learn a little about all the main characters and the interplay between them but there are no big twists or reveals in the book. The story of the wedding just unrolls as it happens. I especially loved the role of the cat. It seemed to allow Gail's softer side to come through as well as cast suspicion on Kenneth and his 'allergies'. A beautiful, easy read.....as many of Ann Tyler's books are.......that can be read as deeply or superficially as the reader desires.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read an advance copy. All opinions are my own

This is the first book I’ve read by this author and I enjoyed it, sharp and witty, I liked that it was short and snappy and the story flowed well

I'm not sure how Anne Tyler does it. She writes about the everyday, about the most ordinary of lives and the most common of situations and still she makes me care about her characters - even when they are spiky as Gail.

Three Days in June tells the story of Gail Baines. At 61 Gail is expecting to take over as head at the school she works at, only to be told her people skills are non-existent and the job will go to a much younger woman. Gail's reaction is to quit and go home. Where she finds her ex-husband, Max (and a cat she's no intention of keeping) who have arrived for the marriage of their only daughter, Debbie.

As the book continues we learn of family conflicts and secrets are revealed that could put Debbie, Max and Gail on a completely different road.

Anne Tyler manages to turn the mundane into something special. Gail is a woman who clearly struggles with relationships and her abrupt manner often set my teeth on edge but Ms Tyler makes you think twice about this woman and her struggles that many of us deal with - disappointment, infidelity, unrealised potential and forgiveness to name but a few.

This is only a short book but it says an awful lot about the human condition.

Highly recommended.

Thankyou to Netgalley and Random House for the advance review copy. Most appreciated.

An interesting twist on a wedding and the characters invited to it. You can't help but feel sorry for a woman overlooked again towards the end of her career but at least it prompted some changes. An interesting look at family dynamics