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Instructions for a Heatwave: The bestselling novel from the prize-winning author of THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT and HAMNET

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By (author): Maggie O'Farrell

A story of a dysfunctional but deeply loveable family reunited, set during the legendary summer of 1976, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE by Maggie O'Farrell was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller (2013).

It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, 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 might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 243g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Aug 2013
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780755358793

About Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 and the memoir I AM I AM I AM both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE MY LOVER'S LOVER THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US which won a Somerset Maugham Award THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of two books for children WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO and THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK. She lives in Edinburgh.

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