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Family that slippery word a star to every wandering bark and 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 and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children a single family and all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals log fires card games and wet walks. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends enemies victims saviours. And 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 and thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter stranger voices - of books and letters and music of the dead who once inhabited these rooms of the ageing house itself and the landscape in which it sits.Once again Mark Haddon bestselling author of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" and "A Spot of Bother" has written a novel that is funny poignant and deeply insightful about human lives.Read More

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    The Red House : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780224096416 : 0224096419 : 10 May 2012 : After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up.

  • 0224096419
  • 9780224096416
  • Mark Haddon
  • 3 May 2012
  • Jonathan Cape
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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