Tom Lake : The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick

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Author: Patchett, Ann Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 6 June 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 320 pages200 x 130 x 21 | 2 28g The breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett – a Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller* WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH JUNE 2024 ** SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 ** A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ** A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *‘Filled with the moments I live for in a story’ BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry‘[Tom Lake] has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships’ REESE WITHERSPOON‘One of the most beloved authors of her generation’ SUNDAY TIMESTheres more to every love story than what we choose to tell...It’s spring and Lara’s three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they’ve 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’ ELLETom Lake was ranked #6 in UK TCM paperback charts week ending 9/6/2024 Show more