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Instructions for a Heatwave
During a suffocating heatwave, one missing father forces a family’s secrets into the open.
Genre and trope pairingsLiteraryFamily secretsLiteraryDysfunctional familyLiteraryFamily sagaContemporary FictionFamily secretsContemporary FictionDysfunctional familyContemporary FictionFamily saga
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About Instructions for a Heatwave
In drought-stricken London in July 1976, Robert Riordan leaves to buy a newspaper and never comes back. His disappearance draws his estranged children home, where old tensions and their mother’s hidden knowledge begin to surface.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- abortion
- pregnancy
- vomit
- miscarriage
- infidelity
- grief
- abandonment
- ableism
- animal death
- xenophobia
- religious bigotry
