THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC
RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'A new Ann Patchett novel is always cause for celebration ... and Tom
Lake is one of her best' i 'This comforting summer read has it all ... Young love sibling
rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships' REESE WITHERSPOON 'Filled with the moments I
live for in a story' BONNIE GARMUS author of Lessons in Chemistry 'One of the most beloved
authors of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES ----------------------------- 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 wasn't famous at all. It's 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. 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' ELLE
----------------------------- Praise for The Dutch House: 'Patchett leads us to a truth that
feels like life rather than literature' Guardian 'The best book I've 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 Lawson The Dutch House was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller w e
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