Instructions for a heatwave

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 co...

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Main Author: O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-
Other Authors: Lee, John Rafter
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : [Westminister, MD] : Random House Audio ; Books on Tape, [2013]
Edition:Unabridged.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Title from web page.
Compact discs.
Duration: 9:09:00.
Physical Description:8 sound discs (549 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9780804120692 :
0804120692 :
Author Notes:Maggie O'Farrell is the author of several novels including After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Instructions for a Heatwave, and This Must Be the Place. She received a Somerset Maugham Award for The Distance Between Us and the 2010 Costa Novel Award for The Hand That First Held Mine.

(Bowker Author Biography)