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Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to place down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels - After You'd Vanished, winner of any Betty Trask Prize; The Distance Between Us, victor of any Somerset Maugham Prize; The Palm That First Held Mine, victor of the Costa Book Prize; and her memorable best-seller The Vanishing Work of Esme Lennox - blend richly textured mental health dilemma with pause-resisting suspense. Instructions for a Heatwave detects her at the top of her game, with a novel in regards to a family crisis placed during the legendary British heatwave of 1976. Gretta Riordan wakes over a stultifying July morning hours to find that her man of forty years has gone to receive the paper and vanished, cleaning out his bank account on the way. Gretta's three grown children converge on the parents' home for the first time in years: Michael Francis, a history teacher whose relationship is failing; Monica, with two stepdaughters who despise her and a blighted past that has motivated away the younger sister she once adored; and Aoife, the youngest, now moving into Manhattan, a good, greatly resourceful young girl who has established her entire life to conceal a destructive secret. Maggie O'Farrell creates with exceptional elegance and awareness about relationship, about the mysteries that inhere within families, and the mistake lines over which we build our lives - the secrets we hide from individuals who know and love us best. In a novel that extends from the center of London to New York City's Upper West Part to a remote village on the coast of Ireland, O'Farrell paints a bracing family portrait of a family group falling aside and coming as well as hard-won, life-changing truths about who they really are.
