Instructions for a heatwave, paperback/maggie o'farrell

Paperback edition of the stunning new novel from the Costa Novel award-winning author of }After Youd Gone{ and }The Distance Between Us{.

Set in the 1976 heatwave, it follows the meltdown of a London Irish family, as the father disappears and his disparate grown-up children return to the fold to try and find him.

Richly comic and painfully well-observed.

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