Ann Patchett: The Dutch House: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020

by Patchett, Ann

ISBN: 9781526614957

Published: 2019

'Ann Patchett just gets better and better ... With more than a nod to Henry James , The Dutch House is quietly devastating, often mysterious and rather beautiful in its effortlessly readable melancholy' ObserverLonglisted for the Women's Prize 2020*The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller and a 'Book of the Year' 2019*Selected as Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Washington Post, Herald and Good Housekeeping A heart-wrenching new novel of the unbreakable bond between a brother and sister, their childhood home, and a past that will not let them go - from the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth"'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer." In the economic boom following the Second World War, Cyril Conroy's real estate investments take his family from poverty to enormous wealth. With...