Instructions for a Heatwave

Name: Instructions for a Heatwave
Author: Maggie O'Farrell

by Maggie O'Farrell

Family faces unexpected heat wave that unmasks decades of secret resentment

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About the author

Maggie O'Farrell

Irish-British novelist whose fiction explores trauma, grief, and female experience across historical periods. Hamnet, about Shakespeare's son's death, won the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is one of the most popular and critically admired British novelists of her generation.

More by Maggie O'Farrell

HamnetAnne Hathaway recounts her silent life as the wife of Shakespeare
I Am I Am I AmWoman recounts the nine moments she nearly died, shaping her survival
The Hand That First Held MineWoman torn between two loves across decades of longing and divided loyalty
After You'd GoneAfter sudden vanishment, woman traces her past through fragmented memories