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The Red House is a dazzlingly inventive book about modern family, from the writer of The Curious Event of your dog in the Night-time. The set-up of Symbol Haddon's outstanding new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to become listed on his for weekly at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter along the way; Angela has a feckless partner and three children who sometimes seem to be alien to her. The level is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, a staple of family gatherings around the world. But because of Haddon's amazing narrative technique, the stories of the eight people are anything but simple. Told through the alternating viewpoints of every identity, The Red House becomes a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising expectations, tightly-guarded secrets and illicit wants, all adding up to a portrait of modern family life that is bittersweet, comic, and deeply believed. Even as we come to learn each identity they become profoundly real to us. We understand them, even as we come to realize they'll never fully understand one another, which is the tragicomedy of every family. The Red House is a literary tour-de-force that illuminates the puzzle of family in a profoundly empathetic manner - a novel certain to entrance the millions of enthusiasts of The Curious Event of your dog in the Night-Time.
