The red house
By: Mark Haddon
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781471205828
Subjects: Families; Fiction
Description: The set up of Mark Haddon's brilliant new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a wilful stepdaughter in the process; Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. All eight arrive with low expectations for a pleasant holiday. But because of Haddon's extraordinary narrative technique, the stories of these eight people are anything but simple. Told through the alternating viewpoints of each character, The Red House becomes a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly-guarded secrets and illicit desires, all adding up to a portrait of contemporary family life that is bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2012.