The Times 50 best paperbacks of 2024The breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett a Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestsellerFilled with the moments I live for in a storyBONNIE GARMUS author of Lessons in ChemistryTom Lake has it all ... Young love sibling rivalry and deep motherdaughter relationshipsREESE WITHERSPOONOne of the most beloved authors of her generationSUNDAY TIMESTheres 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