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.
About the Author
Maggie O`Farrell is the author of five novels, After you’d gone, My Lover’s Lover, The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, and The Hand That First Held Mine, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She lives in Edinburgh.
Reviews - Click on the links to read the full review
'This is an accomplished and addictive story told with real humanity, warmth and infectious love for the characters. Highly recommended.' - Viv Groskop - The Guardian
'A beautiful portrait of family life amid an unravelling crisis...' - Elena Seymenliyska – The Telegraph
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