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The stunning novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell is 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 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.
About the Author
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Distance Between Us, The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox, And The Hand That First Held Mine, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She lives in Edinburgh.
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.
About the Author
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Distance Between Us, The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox, And The Hand That First Held Mine, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She lives in Edinburgh.
Industry Reviews
The Riordans will stay in your mind long after you finish this book. They're funny, infuriating and impossible not to love. They feel like family - Irish TimesMy favourite kind of novel: big-hearted, psychologically complex and utterly grippingUnputdownableInstantly appealing...magical - Daily TelegraphMasterful...holds you on an exquisite knife-edge - Marie ClaireAn author at the top of her game - Sunday ExpressO'Farrell's language is lissom, airborne, mostly seamless, her characters flawed, contradictory, aggravating and instantly knowable. This is a deceptively easy, effortlessly true-feeling novel; a total delight - MetroA quite wonderful novel...at once enthralling, page turning and atmospheric - Irish Examiner
ISBN: 9780755358793
ISBN-10: 0755358791
Published: 10th September 2013
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Headline
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 2.2 x 12.6 x 19.9
Weight (kg): 0.26
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