2013
Omtale fra forlaget
A story of a dysfunctional but deeply loveable family reunited, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE by Maggie O'Farrell already feels like a contemporary classic. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.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 with 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.
Utgivelsesår 2013
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780755358793
EAN 9780755358793
Språk Engelsk
Utgave 1
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O'Farrell skriver godt og gir innblikk i alle de små (og større) dramaer innefor en liten, forholdsvis vanlig, familie satt i en uvanlig situasjon. Selv om jeg ikke identifiserte meg med noen av karakterene, ble jeg engasjert og følte det var fin fremdrift i det som var av handling i løpet av tre varme dager i 1976. Boken er en fin påminnelse om at de fleste skjebner er uvanlige, at ingen familier er "normale" og at det helst går godt... om ikke helt som vi planlegger eller ønsker.
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