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title: "Tom Lake: The 2023 BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dutch House"
brand: "ann patchett"
price: "€ 12.89"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 6
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# Tom Lake: The 2023 BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dutch House

**Brand:** ann patchett
**Price:** € 12.89
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Tom Lake: The 2023 BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dutch House by ann patchett
- **How much does it cost?** € 12.89 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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Tom Lake: The 2023 BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dutch House

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Summer at Tom Lake
*by S***O on 14 January 2025*

Very nice book!It's a soft, quiet book and the plot unravels slowly as you read it. I loved Lara as a narrator. She is so calm, honest and self aware while talking about that fateful summer at Tom Lake.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sweeping Family Story
*by N***Z on 1 October 2023*

Lara's three grown up daughters have returned to the family farm to help with the cherry harvest during the pandemic lockdown. Over the years, they've heard bits and pieces of their mother's brief, but quite successful career as an actress, and now they persuade her to share more about her relationship with now famous Hollywood actor Peter Duke.Switching between the 1980s and the present, this tale tenderly tells of Lara's youth in New Hampshire, leaving her university to travel to LA after being spotted by a talent scout in a college play. At summer stock theatre, she meets Duke and they immediately embark on a relationship - it is as if Lara has no choice, swept away as she is by her charismatic co-star. Events come to a head when Lara injures her Achilles tendon, the mess of intertwined relationships with Duke's brother Sebastian and another actress Pallace, captured beautifully.What also slowly emerges is how Lara ended up marrying husband Joe and on a farm in Michigan as a result of that summer stock, sweetly connecting the threads. Some parts of the story, Lara leaves unspoken - those are her memories only and not for sharing, no matter how close the family dynamics are.Clearly, the author has used her love of the play Our Town to weave this wonderful story of where we think we are going, and where life takes us.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gorgeous book
*by S***A on 3 October 2024*

Beautiful and captivating and comforting writing that keeps you engrossed - careful precise yet elegiac writing - oh to be on that farm!

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*Last updated: 2026-03-06*