![]() ![]() ![]() They swiftly loose their privileged and comfortable existences and subsequently find themselves facing lives of poverty and challenges, and a swelling contempt for the woman their father chose to marry. Paying homage to the sinister nature of fairytales, we meet evil step-mother Andrea, who, in the wake of the death of Danny and Maeve’s beloved father Cyril, throws the siblings out of the house. A book that has echoes of some of the best American classics, The Dutch House is a luminous and spell-binding story about siblings Danny and Maeve, and their obsessive connection to the house in which they grew up. I love books that are centred around a house – Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse being two such examples – and so had an inkling before I even started Patchett’s eighth novel that I’d love it and love it I did. ![]() The second of Patchett’s books that I’ve read, it had been creeping toward the top of my book pile during the festive season, before I finally picked it up mid-way through the first week in January. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett was the first book I ticked off my list in 2020. ![]()
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