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Book Title: Instructions For Heatwave
ISBN: 9780755358793
By Author(s):O’FARRELL MAGGIE
By Publisher:HEADLINE PUBLISHING
Format:PB
An unforgettable narrativefrom theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Marriage PortraitandHamnetof a family falling apart and coming together with hard-won, life-changing truths about who they really are.
Strange weather brings out strange behavior.London, 1976. In the thick of a record-breaking heatwave, Gretta Riordans newly retired husband has cleaned out his bank account and vanished. Now, for the first time in years, Gretta calls her children home: Michael Francis, a history teacher whose marriage is failing; Monica, whose blighted past has driven a wedge between her and her younger sister; and Aoife, the youngest, whose new life in Manhattan is elaborately arranged to conceal a devastating secret.
In a story that stretches from the Upper West Side to a village on the coast of Ireland, Maggie OFarrell explores the mysteries that inhere within families, and reveals the fault lines over which we build our lives.
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