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THE DUTCH HOUSE - ANN PATCHETT KARTONIERT (TB)

Lose 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' Guardian   Nominated
for the Women's Prize 2020    A 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

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