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Advanced, smart, difficult to place down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Eliminated, winner of the Betty Trask Award; The Exact Distance Between Us, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Kept Quarry, winner of the Costa Book Award; and her memorable best-seller The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox—blend highly distinctive mental crisis with page-turning suspense. She is found by instructions for a Heatwave at the very top of her sport, using a book in regards to a family disaster collection throughout the renowned British heatwave of 1976. Gretta Riordan gets on the stultifying September day to locate that her husband of forty years went to obtain the document and disappeared, cleaning up his banking account as you go along. Gretta’s three grown kids meet on the parents’ house for the very first time in decades: Michael Francis, a brief history instructor whose relationship is declining; Monica, with two stepdaughters who dislike her and a blighted past that's pushed out younger sibling she once admired; and Aoife, the newest, currently residing in Manhattan, a good, profoundly inspiring young lady who has organized her lifetime to hide a damaging secret.