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Bloomsbury presents Tom Lake by Ann Patchett read by Meryl Streep

The breathtaking 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 motherdaughter relationships
REESE WITHERSPOON

One of the most beloved authors of her generation
SUNDAY TIMES

Theres more to every love story than what we choose to tell

Its spring and Laras three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard While picking cherries they beg their mother to tell them the one story theyve 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