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Part 2: Instructions For A Heatwave, Maggie O'Farrell at Waterstones Piccadilly

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Channel: Waterstones · 2013 · Entertainment

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Filmed at an event at Waterstones Piccadilly bookshop, Costa Prize winner Maggie O'Farrell answered questions from the journalist and writer Elizabeth Day about her new novel, Instructions For A Heatwave, Waterstones Book of the Month for March.


Instructions For A Heatwave is a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 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 wih 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...

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