Instructions For A Heatwave - Hardcover

O'Farrell, Maggie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443418234 ISBN 13: 9781443418232

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

One of Ireland’s most beloved novelists with more than 1.5 million copies of her books in print now published in Canada for the first time

July, 1976. One morning Robert Riordan tells his wife, Gretta, that he is going around the corner to buy a newspaper.

He doesn’t return.

Drawn back home to London to help solve the mystery, Gretta’s grown-up children fit awkwardly into their childhood roles, and tensions run high. Each is at a turning point in his or her life. The eldest, Michael Francis, is increasingly estranged from his wife by parenthood and his guilt over a brief affair. Monica’s performance as a perfect stepmother is convincing no one; and Aoife, the black sheep of the family, is finding that even in New York she can’t hide from the secret that has set her apart since childhood.

A journey back to Connemara, Ireland, brings surprises, insights and revelations, as each of them confronts the knotty tangle 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 Irish writers.

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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 was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in Wales and Scotland. She now lives in London with her family. Her debut novel, After You’d Gone, was published to international acclaim and won a Betty Trask Award; her third novel, The Distance Between Us, won the Somerset Maugham Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1443418234
• ISBN 13: 9781443418232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304