Book description
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…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Red House as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
First of all, The Red House is set in the English countryside, which I love. And it brings together a group of family members with legitimate grievances.
Some of them involving caretaking of an elderly mother, and I feel like the issue of caretaking is always underrepresented in literature, and yet it’s such a huge issue and can change the trajectory of a person’s life.
This is quite different than Mark Haddon’s better-known book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, so you might just want to pretend someone else wrote it, or you’ll find the…
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