Instructions for a Heatwave : The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet

The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling summer read from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 380,000 copies sold*Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award 'Addictive.Told with real humanity, warmth, and infectious love' Observer_____It's July 1976 and London is in the grip of a heatwave.It hasn't rained for months, the 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 may have gone.None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share. _____'Superlative. A Mike Leigh-style extravaganza of reckonings and reconciliations' Vogue'O'Farrell is hard to beat' Scotsman'There is a deliciousness to this novel, a warmth and readability, that render it unputdownable' Guardian_____?What readers are saying; ? 'The best Maggie O`Farrell I have read to date' ? ? ? ? ? 'I read it in two sittings. A joy' ? ? ? ? ? 'So well-observed, this family draws you in' ? ? ? ? ?