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 28.09.19
