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

THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE ¿ THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT¿Filled with the moments I live for in a story ¿ careful, compelling insights into human nature, the most effortless humour, and the kind of vivid descriptions that reveal exactly how something is¿ BONNIE GARMUSThis 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 m