Instructions for a Heatwave
The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Published:27th Mar '25
Should be back in stock very soon
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
'Addictive. Told with real humanity, warmth, and infectious love' Observer
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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 explanation that even now she cannot share.
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'Superlative. A Mike Leigh-style extravaganza of reckonings and reconciliations' Vogue
'O'Farrell is hard to beat' Scotsman
'There is a deliciousness to this novel, a warmth and readability, that render it unputdownable' Guardian
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⭐ What readers are saying; ⭐
'The best Maggie O`Farrell I have read to date' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I read it in two sittings. A joy' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'So well-observed, this family draws you in' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
*Over 380,000 copies sold*
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award
'Addictive. Told with real humanity, warmth, and infectious love' Observer
--_
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 explanation that even now she cannot share.
--_
'Superlative. A Mike Leigh-style extravaganza of reckonings and reconciliations' Vogue
'O'Farrell is hard to beat' Scotsman
'There is a deliciousness to this novel, a warmth and readability, that render it unputdownable' Guardian
--_
⭐ What readers are saying; ⭐
'The best Maggie O`Farrell I have read to date' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I read it in two sittings. A joy' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'So well-observed, this family draws you in' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
An accomplished debut that excellently conveys the experience of being deaf in a hearing world. A Sign of Her Own gives a fascinating insight into a moment in history when the invention of the telephone was poised to connect countless people, yet deaf communities were being silenced by a movement against the use of sign language. Beautifully written, absorbing and illuminating
ISBN: 9781035430109
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 30mm
Weight: 300g
352 pages