Instructions for a heatwave
By: Maggie O'Farrell
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781471350955
Subjects: Irish fiction
Description: 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.