{"product_id":"the-dutch-house-by-patchett-ann-patchett","title":"The Dutch House by Patchett Ann Patchett","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnn Patchett just gets better and better ... \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith more than a nod to Henry James , \u003cem\u003eThe Dutch House\u003c\/em\u003e is quietly devastating, often mysterious and rather beautiful in its effortlessly readable melancholy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Women's Prize 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e *The \u003cem\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/em\u003eTop Ten bestseller and a Book of the Year 2019*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Selected as Book of the Year in \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHerald \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eBel Canto \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eCommonwealth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDanny 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen 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. Told across the decades with Ann Patchett s inimitable blend of humour, rage and heartbreak, \u003cem\u003eThe Dutch House\u003c\/em\u003e is a book for our times; of family, love, loss, and the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_____ \u003cstrong\u003eReviews for \u003cem\u003eThe Dutch House\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e'The book of the autumn Her finest novel yet \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA wonderful hypnotic masterpiece of a novel. The best book I ve read in years \u003c\/strong\u003eRosamund Lupton \u003cstrong\u003eWhat a spectacular novel. A masterpiece, I d say \u003c\/strong\u003eCathy Rentzenbrink \u003cstrong\u003eIndelibly poignant \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOne of my top favourite contemporary writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere isn t a book of hers that I haven t put down at the end and been haunted by for weeks after \u003c\/strong\u003eGillian Anderson \u003cstrong\u003eThe buzz around \u003cem\u003eThe Dutch House \u003c\/em\u003eis totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something \u003c\/strong\u003eJohn Boyne\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prismatic Pages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52662732390711,"sku":"12521","price":149.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/3097\/1447\/files\/The_Dutch_House_by_Patchett_Ann_Patchett__20260714123018.jpg?v=1784026587","url":"https:\/\/shop.prismaticpages.com\/products\/the-dutch-house-by-patchett-ann-patchett","provider":"Prismatic Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}