For the avid reader, discerning collector and real Ann Patchett - fan (to be),
a like new, signed, Waterstones exclusive, 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
Ann Patchett
Tom Lake
Bloomsbury, London / UK, 2023
"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." (bloomsbury.com)
"Ann Patchett is the author of eight novels and three works of non-fiction. Her most recent novel The Dutch House was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize. In 2002 she won the Orange Prize for Fiction with Bel Canto, a prize she has also twice been shortlisted for with The Magician’s Assistant in 1998 and State of Wonder in 2012. She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one of Time magazine’s
100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been
translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of
Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her
husband, Karl."
(bloomsbury.com)