London in the heatwave of 1976. Gretta Riordan's husband Robert, a retired bank worker, leaves the house one morning to get a paper and does not return. Her strive to find him and bring him back involves her three grown up children: Michael Francis, Monica and the youngest Aoife.
The family dynamics between the main characters and their nearest and dearest are explored and exhausted as each of the children's marriages or relationships is put under the microscope, and the family history is gradually revealed.
I enjoyed this book, believed in the characters, and thought the downbeat ending was very apt.
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