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The Dutch House

Nominated for the Women's Prize 2020

Ann Patchett

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Coup de coeur
Coup de coeur (Literature), by Sorcha
With a dual timeline that follows siblings Danny and Maeve both as children and adults, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is a delightfully sharp exploration of familial dynamics. Patchetts careful and deliberate representation of the different relationships in this dysfunctional family shows the full scope of her talents as a writer: it is a book that can, and perhaps should, be devoured in one go.
Next, dive into TOM LAKE – the breath-taking newest novel from Ann PatchettLose yourself in the story of a lifetime – the unforgettable Sunday Times bestseller‘Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature’ GuardianNominated for the Women’s Prize 2020A STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY CAN’T LET GO.Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been taken from us by the person who still lived inside.In the economic boom following the Second World War, Cyril Conroy's real estate investments take his family from poverty to enormous wealth. With it he buys the Dutch House, a lavish mansion in the Philadelphia suburbs. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.Danny Conroy grows up in the opulence of the Dutch House. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. The siblings grow and change as life plays out under the watchful eyes of the house’s former owners, in the frames of their oil paintings.Then one day their father brings home Andrea, a new stepmother. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve’s lives: exiled from the house and tossed back into the poverty from which their family rose, Danny and Maeve have only each other to count on.‘The best book I’ve read in years’ Rosamund Lupton‘Her finest novel yet’ Sunday Times‘The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something’ John Boyne‘A masterpiece’ Cathy Rentzenbrink‘Bliss’ Nigella Lawson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Apr 2020
Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
ISBN: 9781526614971