Instructions For A Heatwave - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443418234 ISBN 13: 9781443418232

Synopsis

One of Ireland’s most beloved novelists—with more than 1.5 million copies of her books in print—now published in Canada for the first time

July, 1976. One morning Robert Riordan tells his wife, Gretta, that he is going around the corner to buy a newspaper.

He doesn’t return.

Drawn back home to London to help solve the mystery, Gretta’s grown-up children fit awkwardly into their childhood roles, and tensions run high. Each is at a turning point in his or her life. The eldest, Michael Francis, is increasingly estranged from his wife by parenthood and his guilt over a brief affair. Monica’s performance as a perfect stepmother is convincing no one; and Aoife, the black sheep of the family, is finding that even in New York she can’t hide from the secret that has set her apart since childhood.

A journey back to Connemara, Ireland, brings surprises, insights and revelations, as each of them confronts the knotty tangle of family life and love. Elegant and compelling, Instructions for a Heatwave secures Maggie O’Farrell’s position as one of the best of the new generation of Irish writers.

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About the Author

MAGGIE O’FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in Wales and Scotland. She is the author of six novels, including After You’d Gone (winner of the Betty Trask Award), The Distance Between Us (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award). She lives in Edinburgh.

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Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443418234
• ISBN 13: 9781443418232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304