Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'farrell

Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'farrell

The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.

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 wih 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.

Maggie O'Farrell's sixth book is the work of an outstanding novelist at the height of her powers.

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of seven novels, 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, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award. She lives in Edinburgh.

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ISBN 13	9780755358823
ISBN 10	0755358821
Title	Instructions for a Heatwave
Author	Maggie O'farrell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Headline Publishing Group
Year published	2013-02-28
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Short-listed for Costa Novel Award 2013
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.