The Red House

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Nathaniel Parker reads this funny, poignant & deeply insightful novel from bestselling author Mark Haddon Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, & everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela & her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults & four children, a single family & all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games & wet walks. But in the quiet & stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past & present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours. & watching over all of them from high on the dark hill, Karen, Angela's stillborn daughter... The Red House" is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary, weaving the words & thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter, stranger voices
- of books & letters & music, of the dead who once inhabited these rooms, of the ageing house itself & the landscape in which it sits. This is a complete & unabridged reading by Nathaniel Parker.