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Instructions for a Heatwave
A Literary Fiction Novel by Maggie O'Farrell
Subgenres:
- Family Drama,
- Domestic Fiction,
- London, 1976
This book is for you if you're into...
- Family reunions sparked by sudden disappearances
- Secrets simmering during a relentless London heatwave
- Siblings navigating old wounds across continents
An unforgettable narrative—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet—of a family falling apart and coming together with hard-won, life-changing truths about who they really are.
London, 1976. In the thick of a record-breaking heatwave, Gretta Riordan's newly retired husband has cleaned out his bank account and vanished. Now, for the first time in years, Gretta calls her children home: Michael Francis, a history teacher whose marriage is failing; Monica, whose blighted past has driven a wedge between her and her younger sister; and Aoife, the youngest, whose new life in Manhattan is elaborately arranged to conceal a devastating secret.
In a story that stretches from the Upper West Side to a village on the coast of Ireland, Maggie O'Farrell explores the mysteries that inhere within families, and reveals the fault lines over which we build our lives.
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