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

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Instructions for a Heatwave (Vintage Contemporaries)

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) "

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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Maggie O’Farrell (1972 in Coleraine, Northern Ireland), grew up in Wales and Scotland after moving with her family at the age of two. At eight years old, she suffered a severe encephalitis that kept her hospitalized and away from school for more than a year, an experience that deeply influenced her life and work. She studied English Literature at Cambridge and worked as a journalist in Hong Kong and London before fully dedicating herself to writing. She currently lives in Edinburgh.

Her work is characterized by the psychological depth of her characters and original narrative. Among her most famous novels are, After You’d Gone (2000), her literary debut, winner of the Betty Trask Award; The Hand That First Held Mine (2010), awarded the Costa Novel Award; and Hamnet (2020), an international bestseller and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, which fictionalizes the life of William Shakespeare’s family.

Her work has been translated into more than 30 languages and has received numerous international accolades.

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