Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

The astonishing new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.

Ann Patchett is the author of eight novels and three works of non-fiction. Her most recent novel The Dutch House was a Sunday Times bestseller and longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize. She is the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

06 July 2023

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