Instructions for a Heat Wave - Hardcover

O'Farrell, Maggie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385349408 ISBN 13: 9780385349406

Publisher: Knopf, 2013

Synopsis

O'Farrell, Maggie

About this title

From the Back Cover:

It’s July 1976. In London, it hasn’t rained in months. Gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife, Gretta, that he is going around the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn’t return.

The search for Robert brings Gretta’s three children 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. A journey back to Connemara, Ireland, brings surprises, insights, and revelations, as each confronts the knotty triangle of family life and love.

Elegant and compelling, Instructions for a Heatwave secures Maggie O’Farrell’s position as one of the best of the new generation of British writers.

About the Author:

Maggie O’Farrell is the author of After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; My Lover’s Lover; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox; and The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of a Costa Novel Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0385349408
• ISBN 13: 9780385349406
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304