Red House

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Family that slippery word a star to every wandering bark & everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mothers 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 Angelas 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. Once again Mark Haddon bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time & A Spot of Bother has written a novel that is funny poignant & deeply insightful about human lives.