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Instructions for a Heatwave
Instructions for a Heatwave

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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.

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  • Binding Paperback
  • Author Maggie O'Farrell
  • ISBN13 9780755358823
  • ISBN10 0755358821
  • Pages 352
  • Published 2013
  • Fecha de publicación 28/02/2013
  • Language English
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Maggie Maggie O'Farrell Maggie Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie Maggie O'Farrell

1972 (Colerain, Reino Unido) See page of Maggie Maggie O'Farrell
Creció en Gales, Escocia, y a los ocho años sufrió una encefalitis que le hizo perder un año escolar. Esta experiencia se vio reflejada en varias de sus novelas. Estudió Literatura Inglesa en el Murray Edwards College. O’Farrell ha trabajado como periodista en Hong Kong y también como redactora literaria en The Independent. Por otra parte, impartió clases de Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Warwick y en el Goldsmith’s College. Por el hecho de ser irlandesa sufrió muchas burlas y vejaciones en Inglaterra, tema que trataría en sus obras a partir del 2013, como es el caso de Instrucciones para una ola de calor. Entre sus libros traducidos al castellano también se pueden encontrar Tiene que ser aquí, La primera mano que sostuvo la mía, Sigo aquí y Hamnet, que se convirtió en todo un fenómeno de ventas.
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Instructions for a Heatwave

Instructions for a Heatwave

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