23/06/2026
It's heating up this week, and I think we could all use some Instructions for a Heatwave! 📖☀️
This is Maggie O'Farrell at the top of her game, with a novel about a family crisis set during the legendary British heatwave of 1976. (Yes, that one - that record we're about to surpass!)
Gretta Riordan wakes on a stultifying July morning to find that her husband of forty years has gone to get the paper and vanished, cleaning out his bank account along the way. Gretta's three grown children converge on their parents' home for the first time in years.
In a novel that stretches from the heart of London to New York City's Upper West Side to a remote village on the coast of Ireland, O'Farrell paints a bracing portrait of a family falling apart and coming together with hard-won, life-changing truths about who they really are.
We're closed tomorrow, so perhaps it's the perfect time to stay shaded inside with a cool drink of water and a good book like this! 📖☀️
