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 (2013).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.
Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupISBN: 9780755358793Number of pages: 352Weight: 243 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 23 mm
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An accomplished debut that excellently conveys the experience of being deaf in a hearing world. A Sign of Her Own gives a fascinating insight into a moment in history when the invention of the telephone was poised to connect countless people,yet deaf communities were being silenced by a movement against the use of sign language. Beautifully written,absorbing and illuminatingThe Riordans will stay in your mind long after you finish this book. They're funny,infuriating and impossible not to love. They feel like familyMy favourite kind of novel: big-hearted,psychologically complex and utterly grippingUnputdownableInstantly appealing...magicalMasterful...holds you on an exquisite knife-edgeAn author at the top of her gameO'Farrell's language is lissom,airborne,mostly seamless,her characters flawed,contradictory,aggravating and instantly knowable. This is a deceptively easy,effortlessly true-feeling novel; a total delightA quite wonderful novel...at once enthralling,page turning and atmospheric
Maggie O'Farrell
Waterstones has been a keen early advocate of Maggie O'Farrell since we identified her as a talent to watch in our 25 Authors of the Future list back in 2007 aftersupporting her brilliant debutAfter You'd Gone. Since then she's continued to impress with novels including:Instructions for a Heatwave,The Hand That First Held Mine(for which she won the Costa Book Award) and This Must Be the Place.
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