About the Book: Instructions for a Heatwave
The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie OFarrell:
a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.Its
July 1976. In London, it hasnt rained for months, 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 wih different ideas as to where their
father might have gone. None of them