Tom Lake

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 302 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE - THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETTFilled with the moments I live for in a story - careful, compelling insights into human nature, the most effortless humour, and the kind of vivid descriptions that reveal exactly how something is BONNIE GARMUS, bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryBeautifully imagined, funny and tender ... Ann Patchett leads us with the intelligence, detail, wit and nuance of the greatest chroniclers of human nature and relationshipsRACHEL JOYCE, bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry-----------------------------This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasnt famous at all.Its about falling so wildly in love with him - the way one will at twenty-four - that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight.There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end. Its spring and Laras three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story theyve always longed to hear - of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage ... Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers ELLE-----------------------------Praise for The Dutch House:Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature Guardian The best book Ive read in years Rosamund Lupton Her finest novel yet Sunday Times The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something John Boyne A masterpiece Cathy Rentzenbrink Bliss Nigella LawsonThe Dutch House was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller w/e 28.09.19

ISBN: 9781526664280