num_pages: 212
description: When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' well-appointed house in Paris, she is prepared to spend her day between trains looked after by an old friend of her grandmother's. Henrietta longs to see a few sights in the foreign city; little does she know what fascinating secrets the Fisher house itself contains. For Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be introduced to the mother he has never known. In the course of a single day, the relations between Leopold, Henrietta's agitated hostess Naomi Fisher, Leopold's mysterious mother, his dead father, and the dying matriarch in bed upstairs, come to light slowly and tantalizingly. When Henrietta leaves the house that evening, it is in possession of the kind of grave knowledge usually reserved only for adults.
language: English
title: The house in Paris
titlecomplete: The house in Paris
characters: Leopold (The House in Paris), Karen Michaelis, Mr. Michaelis, Max Ebhart, Mme. Fisher, Uncle Bill, Mrs. Arbuthnot, Henrietta Mountjoy, Mrs. Michaelis, Aunt Violet, Ray Forrestier, Naomi Fisher
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, France, Ireland, British Literature, Irish Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 2275
places: France
publisher: Jonathan Cape