{"product_id":"9781526664273","title":"Tom Lake : The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ann Patchett\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 August 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e242 x 165 x 31mm | 618g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDive into Tom Lake - the breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett * THE SUNDAY TIMES AND  NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * 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 TIMESThis is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn’t famous at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage … Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers’ ELLE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ann Patchett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56154000687429,"sku":"9781526664273","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781526664273.jpg?v=1762273398","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781526664273","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}