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What is Instructions for a Heatwave about?

The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, 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 wih different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share. Maggie O'Farrell's sixth book is the work of an outstanding novelist at the height of her powers.ReviewPraise for Instructions for a Heat Wave: “Acutely observed...revelatory, redemptive, and moving...There is a deliciousness to this novel, a warmth and readability that render it unputdownable and will surely make it a hit. O’Farrell has done it again.” –Joanna Briscoe, The Guardian“A literary event...evocative, articulate, and joyously readable...O’Farrell’s talent for drawing intriguing but relatable cha

Who reads Instructions for a Heatwave?

Author

Maggie O'Farrell

Publisher

Headline Publishing Group

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780755358823

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.62 / 5 (9,316 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14