Instructions for a heatwave
By: Maggie O'Farrell
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780385349406; 9780345804716; 9780385349413
Subjects: Family secrets; Children of disappeared persons; Fiction
Description: When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during a sweltering summer in 1976, his three children converge on their mother's home for the first time in years and track clues to an ancestral village in Ireland, where they uncover illuminating family secrets.