Paperback edition of the stunning new novel from the Costa Novel award-winning author of }After You'd Gone{ and }The Distance Between Us{. Set in the 1976 heatwave, it follows the meltdown of a London Irish family, as the father disappears and his disparate grown-up children return to the fold to try and find him. Richly comic and painfully well-observed. 'O'Farrell has a remarkable ability to convey the texture of human emotion with precision' }Observer{