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The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling summer read from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
'Addictive. Told with real humanity, warmth, and infectious love' Observer
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It's July 1976 and London is in the grip of a heatwave. It hasn't rained for months, the gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back.
The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each with different ideas as to where their father may have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.
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'Superlative. A Mike Leigh-style extravaganza of reckonings and reconciliations' Vogue
'O'Farrell is hard to beat' Scotsman
'There is a deliciousness to this novel, a warmth and readability, that render it unputdownable' Guardian
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⭐ What readers are saying; ⭐
'The best Maggie O`Farrell I have read to date' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I read it in two sittings. A joy' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'So well-observed, this family draws you in' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Instructions for a Heatwave
The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet
The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling summer read from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
*Over 380,000 copies sold*
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award
'Addictive. Told with real humanity, warmth, and infectious love' Observer
_____
It's July 1976 and London is in the grip of a heatwave. It hasn't rained for months, the gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back.
The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each with different ideas as to where their father may have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.
_____
'Superlative. A Mike Leigh-style extravaganza of reckonings and reconciliations' Vogue
'O'Farrell is hard to beat' Scotsman
'There is a deliciousness to this novel, a warmth and readability, that render it unputdownable' Guardian
_____
⭐ What readers are saying; ⭐
'The best Maggie O`Farrell I have read to date' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I read it in two sittings. A joy' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'So well-observed, this family draws you in' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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