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Tom Lake

The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick

Ann Patchett

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Like in The Dutch House, Tom Lake has a dual timeline that follows its main character Lara both when she was a young actress and as a middle aged mother of three. Its present-day-timeline is set during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Laras three adult daughters have returned to their family farm for lockdown, while the flashbacks explore Laras young adult years as an actress and her relationship with famous (fictional) actor Peter Duke. Tom Lake is at once a stunning exploration of family and motherhood and a melancholy introspection on Laras early adulthood: one particular summer when her life was changed forever.

The breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett – a Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller

* WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH JUNE 2024 *
* SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 *
* A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK *
* A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *

‘Filled with the moments I live for in a story’ BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry

‘[Tom Lake] has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships’ REESE WITHERSPOON

‘One of the most beloved authors of her generation’ SUNDAY TIMES

There's more to every love story than what we choose to tell...

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

Tom Lake was ranked #6 in UK TCM paperback charts week ending 9/6/2024

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2024
Dimensions: 200 x 130 x 21 mm
ISBN: 9781526664297