The Red House

An dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime." Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. The stage is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, simmering grudges, fading dreams, and illicit desires.

From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Against the backdrop of a strange family gathering, Haddon skillfully weaves together the stories of eight very different people forced into close quarters. The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly guarded secrets and illicit desires, painting a portrait of contemporary family life that is at once bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.