New Arrival Commonwealth

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Author: Patchett, Ann

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 4 May 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 336 pages
131 x 198 x 21 | 236g

Next, dive into TOM LAKE the breath-taking new novel from Ann Patchett’Dazzling life-affirming and compulsively readable’ Sunday Times’Patchett blends wisdom and humanity jointly with the icy forensic gaze of someone not afraid to expose the frailties of human behaviour … Read it’ Jojo Moyes’An outstanding novel … a master of her art’ ObserverIt is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keatings christening party uninvited and notices a heart stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his hosts wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families, whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later.

In 1988, Franny Keating, now twenty-four, is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets the famous author Leon Posen one night at the bar, and tells him about her family, she unwittingly relinquishes control over their story