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0755358791 
Paperback Instructions for a Heatwave
Publication year: 2013
Language: English
Media Paperback
Classification: F
Publisher: Tinder Press, 2013
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 0755358791 9780755358793
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A story of a dysfunctional but deeply loveable family reunited, set during the legendary summer of 1976, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE by Maggie O'Farrell was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.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.
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Cleverly constructed. Well-written with characters you can relate to. Evoking memories of the heatwave of 1976. My favourite book of last year.
11/02/16
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