A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
An unforgettably powerful new novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go – from the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto
'The book of the autumn. The American author of Commonwealth (brilliant) and Bel Canto (even better) releases perhaps her finest novel yet’ - Sunday Times
‘The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something’ – John Boyne
“'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.”
Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. 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. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house’s former owners in the frames of their oil paintings.
Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve’s lives. The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother’s: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known.
Told with Ann Patchett’s inimitable blend of humour, rage and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale and story of a paradise lost; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives.
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
An unforgettably powerful new novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go – from the Number One New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto
'The book of the autumn. The American author of Commonwealth (brilliant) and Bel Canto (even better) releases perhaps her finest novel yet’ - Sunday Times
‘The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something’ – John Boyne
“'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.”
Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. 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. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house’s former owners in the frames of their oil paintings.
Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve’s lives. The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother’s: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known.
Told with Ann Patchett’s inimitable blend of humour, rage and heartbreak, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale and story of a paradise lost; of the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us for our whole lives.
A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice, and the power of place
Ann Patchett is the author of seven novels and three works of non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction three times; with The Magician’s Assistant in 1998, winning the prize with Bel Canto in 2002, and was most recently shortlisted with State of Wonder in 2012. She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl.
A wonderful hypnotic masterpiece of a novel. The best book I’ve
read in years
*Rosamund Lupton*
One of my top favourite contemporary writers. I don’t think that
there’s a book of hers that I haven’t put down at the end and been
haunted by for weeks after
*Gillian Anderson*
The Dutch House is a novel that assures Patchett, alongside John
Irving and Anne Tyler, a place as one of the foremost chroniclers
of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in
American lives
*Financial Times*
Indelibly poignant in its long unspooling perspective on family
life, The Dutch House brilliantly captures how time undoes all
certainties
*Observer*
An intimate and transporting novel … The Dutch House is a novel
brimming with pain and tenderness in which Patchett’s gifts as a
storyteller are on full display … A searching, exquisitely
wrenching novel about family, sacrifice and obsession
*Sunday Times*
One of the most celebrated novelists of our times … But it is her
new book, widely billed a one of this autumn’s best new reads,
where she truly comes into her own
*Sunday Times Magazine*
Impeccably fine … A thoughtful, quietly profound book
*i paper*
The Dutch House offers … A simultaneous awareness of human
fragility and human resilience
*Daily Telegraph*
She uses her signature blend of wry humour, rage and regret in a
tale of siblings who cannot escape the shadow of their childhood
home
*i*
Masterly
*The Times*
An outstanding novel, wryly funny, heart-breakingly sad and
entirely engrossing
*S Magazine*
We’re calling it now: The Dutch House will be the book of the
autumn ... Her finest novel yet
*Sunday Times*
Few novelists today combine such a forensic eye with an acute and
humane understanding of human nature. I would read Ann Patchett’s
shopping list
*Jojo Moyes*
Patchett is a master at pacing and detail … The question of what
makes a home pervades this gripping book
*New Statesman*
She rivals Tyler for emotional acuity
*Metro*
Ann Patchett writes novels that quietly and thoroughly devastate
the reader – in a good way. Her new novel is no exception
*Red*
Patchett well deserves her reputation for compelling novels, and
The Dutch House is her most enthralling yet
*Vogue*
What a spectacular novel. A masterpiece, I’d say
*Cathy Rentzenbrink*
Wise and funny and unwraps the complexities of human beings with
heartbreaking tenderness. I love this book
*Renée Knight*
Bliss
*Nigella Lawson*
The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet,
which is saying something
*John Boyne*
If there’s a better, more poignant or involving novel than The
Dutch House published this year, I will be very, very surprised
*Andrew Holgate*
A dark modern fairy tale, a delicately woven portrait of a family
in flux
*Evening Standard*
The plot is gentle but firm while Patchett’s prose dazzles with
detail and nuance, spinning a story that tucks itself inside your
heart
*i paper*
Wonderfully astute ... Patchett’s books … have a sly comic
undertow
*Mail on Sunday*
A marvellously romantic and evocative novel about the nostalgic
pull of a lost home … Beautifully written and often tender … That
rare thing: a novel which reveals greater riches on a second
reading
*Spectator*
Beautifully imagined … Patchett has excelled herself to produce one
of the most moving and engaging novels this year
*Daily Express*
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