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Instructions For A Heatwave

Maggie O'Farrell

2013289 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2013
first published
  • 2013Headline Publishing GroupISBN 9780755358786
  • 2013HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · 289 pages · ENGISBN 9781443418232
  • 2013No further detail recordedISBN 9780804120692

When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during a sweltering summer in 1976, his three children converge on their mother's home for the first time in years and track clues to an ancestral village in Ireland, where they uncover illuminating family secrets.

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Character focusTwo hander

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Romance levelCentral

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ThemesLove
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