Instructions for a Heatwave: The bestselling novel from the prize-winning author of THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT and HAMNET
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Instructions for a Heatwave: The bestselling novel from the prize-winning author of THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT and HAMNET
By (Author) Maggie O'Farrell
Headline Publishing Group
Tinder Press
29th April 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Family life fiction
Narrative theme: Interior life
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
300g
Description
The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling summer read from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
*Over 380,000 copies sold*Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award'The Riordans feel like family' Irish Times_____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.'Masterful. Holds you on a knife edge' Marie Claire 'Exceptionally good' Daily Telegraph 'Superlative' VogueAuthor Bio
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.
