The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling summer read from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAITOver 380,000 copies soldShortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award Addictive. Told with real humanity, warmth, and infectious love ObserverIts July 1976 and London is in the grip of a heatwave. It hasnt rained for months, the gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that hes going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesnt come back.The search for Robert brings Grettas 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 Leighstyle extravaganza of reckonings and reconciliations VogueOFarrell is hard to beat ScotsmanThere is a deliciousness to this novel, a warmth and readability, that render it unputdownable Guardian What readers are saying The best Maggie OFarrell I have read to date I read it in two sittings. A joy So wellobserved, this family draws you in

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FA; Weight: 422 g; Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 28

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