Name: Instructions for a Heatwave (Vintage Contemporaries) (in English)
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Author: Maggie O'Farrell
ISBN: 9780345804716

portada Instructions for a Heatwave (Vintage Contemporaries) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Maggie O'Farrell

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780345804716

Synopsis "Instructions for a Heatwave (Vintage Contemporaries) (in English)"

London, 1976. In the thick of a record-breaking heatwave, Gretta Riordan’s 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 O’Farrell explores the mysteries that inhere within families, and reveals the fault lines over which we build our lives. Instructions for a Heatwave weaves an unforgettable narrative of a family falling apart and coming together with hard-won, life-changing truths about who they really are.

Maggie O'Farrell

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(Coleraine, Irlanda del Norte, 1972). Periodista y escritora irlandesa. Ha trabajado como periodista en Hong Kong y también como redactora literaria en The Independent. Entre sus numerosas novelas, se encuentra The Distance Between Us (2004), ganadora del premio Somerset Maugham; La primera mano que sostuvo la mía, ganadora del premio Costa de novela y el Bestseller internacional Hamnet, galardonada con el Women’s Prize for Fiction y el National Book Critics Circle Award.

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