by Maggie O'Farrell · 10/18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264064745
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«En cas de forte chaleur» is the novel by Maggie O'Farrell, published by 10/18 in paperback (356 pages, in French).
In the sweltering London of July 1976, Robert Riordan goes out to buy the newspaper and doesn't come back. His wife Gretta and their three children, gathered together, try to understand what has happened; as they search for clues in the house, old wounds, lies and family silences come to light, spanning London, New York and a village in Ireland.
The French translation is by Michèle Valencia. The original work, «Instructions for a Heatwave», was published in 2013 and was nominated for the Costa Book Award.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs looking for a family drama with historical and emotional depth.
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL is an Irish-British novelist. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. O'Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloé Zhao in 2025, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.
