by Maggie O'Farrell · Headline · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780755358793
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«Instructions for a Heatwave» is the contemporary fiction novel by Maggie O'Farrell, published by Headline in paperback (324 pages, in English).
Set in London in July 1976, during a heatwave, the sudden disappearance of Robert Riordan after going out to buy the newspaper brings together his three children: two sisters who barely speak to each other and a brother on the verge of divorce. As each one seeks explanations, Gretta, their mother, hides a secret she cannot yet confess.
Published in 2013, it was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and reached the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list.
Story of a dysfunctional but endearing family, for readers of character-driven novels with historical background.
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.
