{"product_id":"instructions-for-a-heatwave-9780345804716","title":"Instructions for a Heatwave","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable narrative--f\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003erom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamnet--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eof a family falling apart and coming together with hard-won, life-changing truths about who they really are.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eStrange weather brings out strange behavior\u003ci\u003e.\" \u003c\/i\u003eLondon, 1976. In the thick of a record-breaking heatwave, Gretta Riordan's newly retired husband has cleaned out his bank account and vanished. Now, for the first time in years, Gretta calls her children home: Michael Francis, a history teacher whose marriage is failing; Monica, whose blighted past has driven a wedge between her and her younger sister; and Aoife, the youngest, whose new life in Manhattan is elaborately arranged to conceal a devastating secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a story that stretches from the Upper West Side to a village on the coast of Ireland, Maggie O'Farrell explores the mysteries that inhere within families, and reveals the fault lines over which we build our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), \u003ci\u003eAfter You'd Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hand That First Held Mine\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and \u003ci\u003eInstructions for a Heatwave\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written a memoir, \u003ci\u003eI Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Edinburgh. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647451697426,"sku":"9780345804716","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_369c95d2-b0aa-4bd7-8aca-47910b054c29.jpg?v=1734800130","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/instructions-for-a-heatwave-9780345804716","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}