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Instructions for a heatwave

O'Farrell, Maggie 1972- (Author). Lee, John Rafter. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0804120692 :
  • ISBN: 9780804120692 :
  • Physical Description: 8 sound discs (9 hr., 9 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
    sound disc
    sound recording
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio ; [Westminister, MD] : Books on Tape, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Duration: 9:09:00.
Participant or Performer Note: Read by John Lee.
Subject: Children of disappeared persons Fiction
Family secrets Fiction
Heat waves (Meteorology) England London Fiction
London (England) Fiction
Genre: Love stories.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Audiobooks.

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Instructions for a Heatwave
Instructions for a Heatwave
by O'Farrell, Maggie
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Author Notes

Instructions for a Heatwave

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of several novels including After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Instructions for a Heatwave, and This Must Be the Place. She received a Somerset Maugham Award for The Distance Between Us and the 2010 Costa Novel Award for The Hand That First Held Mine. (Bowker Author Biography)


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