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Synopsis
The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: 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 wih 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.
Maggie O'Farrell's sixth book is the work of an outstanding novelist at the height of her powers.
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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 Times)
My favourite kind of novel: big-hearted, psychologically complex and utterly gripping (Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette)
Unputdownable (Joanna Briscoe, Guardian)
Instantly appealing...magical (Daily Telegraph)
Masterful...holds you on an exquisite knife-edge (Marie Claire)
An author at the top of her game (Sunday Express)
O'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 (Metro)
A quite wonderful novel...at once enthralling, page turning and atmospheric (Irish Examiner)
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Maggie O'Farrell has now sold over a million books in the UK through Bookscan. She is consistently a hardback bestseller - THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE sold just over 15,000 copies in hardback alone.
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- PublisherTinder Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0755358821
- ISBN 13 9780755358823
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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