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The Red House

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From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secrets

Two families. Seven days. One house.

Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks.

But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours.

Once again Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, has written a novel that is funny, poignant and deeply insightful about human lives.

Editions (2)

ISBN9780099570165
PublisherDK
Publication Date04/25/13
Pages352

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  • 4.0

    A fragmented, stream of consciousness-style story about eight people with various problems of their own get together for a vacation. Point of views shift constantly, even between paragraphs, sometimes even including excepts of what people are reading. Sometimes it takes a while to find out in whose head you are at the moment. Everyone is their own complicated, normal-but-complex individual. I found it interesting to jump from head to head, getting immersed in everyones own, specific point of view and seeing what's on their minds. The main storyline is almost non-existent, or at the very least irrelevant. it's about thoughts and emotions, experiences and significant banalities. If you can get along with the experimental writing style, it's surely worth a read. It's very different from "Incident of the dog in the night-time" though. Do not expect a similar read or you'll be very disappointed.

    Feb 8, 2018

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