- Publisher: Tinder
- Year: 2013
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 196x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9780755358793
- Product code: 538520
Instructions for a Heatwave
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Moving seamlessly backwards and forwards through time, Maggie O'Farrell's brilliantly observed portrait of a dysfunctional family uneasily re-united under vexing circumstances begins during the long drought of 1976, when Robert Riordan leaves the family home in London to buy a newspaper – and doesn't return.
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A story of a dysfunctional but deeply loveable family reunited, set during the legendary summer of 1976, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE by Maggie O'Farrell was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller (2013).
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.
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.
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Moving seamlessly backwards and forwards through time, Maggie O'Farrell's brilliantly observed portrait of a dysfunctional family uneasily re-united under vexing circumstances begins during the long drought of 1976, when Robert Riordan leaves the family home in London to buy a newspaper – and doesn't return.
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