Tom Lake

Resumen del libro

The breath-taking new novel from Ann Patchett 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 TIMESThere'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 *

Biografía del autor

ANN PATCHETT es autora de nueve novelas, cuatro libros de no ficción y dos libros infantiles. Graduada por el Sarah Lawrence College y el Iowa Writer's Workshop, Patchett ha recibido numerosos premios y becas: la National Humanities Medal, el England's Women's Prize, el PEN/Faulkner Award, el Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award de la American Academy of Arts and Letters, el Book Sense Book of the Year, una beca Guggenheim, el premio The Chicago Tribune's Heartland, The Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, el American Bookseller's Association's Most Engaging Author Award y el Women's National Book Association's Award. Su novela La casa holandesa fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer. Sus libros han figurado en las listas de libros notables y bestsellers del periódico New York Times. Su obra se ha traducido a más de treinta idiomas.