London, 1976.
Instructions for a Heatwave weaves an unforgettable narrative of a family falling apart and coming together with hard-won, life-changing truths about who they really are.".
In 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.
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.
In the thick of a record-breaking heatwave, Gretta Riordan s newly retired husband has cleaned out his bank account and vanished.
London, 1976
