Tom Lake: The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick

In her novel "Tom Lake," Ann Patchett explores the complexities of love, family, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. The book is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the search for happiness in the face of adversity. It has received critical acclaim, including a spot on the Waterstones Books of the Year 2023 shortlist.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The captivating 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, said.

[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," said the 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," Elle said. "Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers."

* 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

Weight: 610g
Dimension: 242 x 165 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526664273