Tom Lake
The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
The Times 50 best paperbacks of 2024
A Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller
'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
* 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 *
Tom Lake was No. 1 in the New York Times Hardback Fiction Chart and No. 7 in the Sunday Times Hardback Fiction Chart w/e August 5, 2023.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In this quietly revelatory novel from treasured American writer Ann Patchett, sisters Emily, Maisie and Nell return to their family’s Michigan cherry farm during the pandemic. There, they convince their reluctant mother, Lara, to tell them the story of her long ago romance with the movie star Peter Duke. Moving between past and present, Patchett sensorily evokes the two primary settings: the “crushingly pretty” Tom Lake—the summer stock theatre where Lara met Peter before he was famous—and the farm, where the women work as Lara tells her daughters about love at twenty-four and her latent dreams of being an actor. Patchett’s characters are, as ever, vividly drawn—they’re sentimental, flawed, with blind spots, white-hot feelings and big hearts. With its emotional clarity, perspective on the passing of time, and tingly conclusion, Tom Lake says so much about what it is to love and be loved.
