Cover of Instructions for a heatwave

Book 2013

Instructions for a heatwave

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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Language
English
Published
2013
  • Fiction
  • Children of disappeared persons
  • Runaway husbands
  • Children of separated parents
  • Family life
  • Secrets

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.