THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE - THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT
'Filled with the moments I live for in a story - careful, compelling insights into human nature, the most effortless humour, and the kind of vivid descriptions that reveal exactly how something is' BONNIE GARMUS, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry'
Beautifully imagined, funny and tender ... Ann Patchett leads us with the intelligence, detail, wit and nuance of the greatest chroniclers of human nature and relationships'RACHEL JOYCE, bestselling author ofThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry-----------------------------
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-----------------------------
Praise for The Dutch House:'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian 'The best book I've read in years' Rosamund Lupton 'Her finest novel yet' Sunday Times 'The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something' John Boyne 'A masterpiece' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Bliss' Nigella LawsonThe Dutch House was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller w/e 28.09.19
When taking any Patchett novel you know from the first page that you are in expert hands. Her latest novel, TOM LAKE, does not disappoint!
Laura is in lockdown on her family’s cherry farm in idyllic rural Michigan with her sturdy husband, Joe and her three adult daughters. Here she finds herself recounting her heady youth as a budding actress enjoying a passionate affair with the utterly wild and gorgeous Duke, a fellow-actor who would go on to become one of the greatest heartthrobs of his generation. Mirrored through her daughters’ youthful and unformed perspective on life, Laura tries to convey how her choice to spend her life with a gentle farmer and not a famous actor was the right one.
This is a beautiful story about moving through life and recognising how the meaning of what happiness looks like changes over a lifetime. It is a gorgeous, perfectly crafted book on family, love, and the many gifts delivered to us by the march of time. TOM LAKE is contemporary American fiction at its best.
