
From the bestselling, award-winning author of INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE and THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, comes an unforgettable story of a man seeking to come to terms with the death of a woman he loved thirty years ago. Daniel Sullivan, his wife and three children are en route to an airport when he happens to turn on the radio. A hush falls when Daniel hears a voice he has not heard for decades, and realises that the talented, unhappy woman it belonged to died shortly after he left her. What follows is Daniel's attempt to uncover the truth of how he came to walk away from his first love, with devastating consequences. But this is not his story alone, for his has been a complex life, and it is just as much that of the estranged children of his previous marriage, of his wife Claudette Wells, a reclusive former actress, and of the family they have raised in a stunning but remote rural Irish...
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Har läst O'Farrell en gång tidigare, gillade hennes roman Sommaren utan regn väldigt, väldigt mycket. Härförleden såg jag ett avsnitt av Babel i SVT. En av gästerna var Maggie O'Farrell och jag var så nyfiken på henne och hennes författande. Min nyfikenhet blev inte mindre efter Babelintervjun. Gick genast till biblioteket och lånade hennes senaste roman på svenska: Det måste vara här. Omfångsrik och färgstark. Berättar så mänskligt historier om vår samtid.