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Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett

Tom Lake

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Dive 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 TIMES
This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.
This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn't famous at all.
It'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.
There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end.
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
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345 printed pages
Publication year
2023
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    Duke was on his way up and I was on my way out. Neither of us could have said those words but we knew.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted4 hours ago
    Every day I took a jumble of snags and tears and turned them back into clothes. I found the work extremely satisfying, as I imagine Rumpelstiltskin must have gotten a kick out of spinning all that straw into gold.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted17 hours ago
    She wanted to be her father’s girl, his birthday girl. Growing up was a terrible thing—­a clear path to the third act. Emily showed us that, all those moments in life we had missed and would never get back again.

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