Instructions for a Heat Wave: Maggie O'Farrell - Brossura

O'Farrell, Maggie

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ISBN 10: 103543010X ISBN 13: 9781035430109

Casa editrice: Hachette Collections, 2025

Riassunto

The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT - an unforgettable portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976

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Informazioni sull?autore

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include 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, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.

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It's July 1976 and London is in the grip of a heatwave. It hasn't rained for months, the 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 may have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Hachette Collections
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 103543010X
• ISBN 13: 9781035430109
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: Tinder Press; https://www.tinderpress.co.uk/; ; Carmelite House 50 Victoria Embankment; London; EC4Y 0DZ; Regno Unito
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile