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ABOUT
THE BOOK
It’s July 1976. In London, it hasn’t rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he’s going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn’t come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta’s children – two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce – back home, each wih different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
A story about family relationships set in the 1970s.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
28/02/2013
Publisher
Tinder Press
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