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A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice, and the power of place

About the Author

Ann Patchett is the author of seven novels and three works of non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction three times; with The Magician’s Assistant in 1998, winning the prize with Bel Canto in 2002, and was most recently shortlisted with State of Wonder in 2012. She is also the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, Karl.

Reviews

A wonderful hypnotic masterpiece of a novel. The best book I’ve read in years
*Rosamund Lupton*

A gloriously immersive family saga about lost inheritance
*Guardian, Books of the Year*

One of my top favourite contemporary writers. I don’t think that there’s a book of hers that I haven’t put down at the end and been haunted by for weeks after
*Gillian Anderson*

The vicissitudes of life in a step-family unfold over five decades … A moving portrait of an unusual house and the unhappy family living in it
*The Times, Book of the Year*

The Dutch House is a novel that assures Patchett, alongside John Irving and Anne Tyler, a place as one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives
*Financial Times*

Indelibly poignant in its long unspooling perspective on family life, The Dutch House brilliantly captures how time undoes all certainties
*Observer*

An intimate and transporting novel … The Dutch House is a novel brimming with pain and tenderness in which Patchett’s gifts as a storyteller are on full display … A searching, exquisitely wrenching novel about family, sacrifice and obsession
*Sunday Times*

One of the most celebrated novelists of our times … But it is her new book, widely billed a one of this autumn’s best new reads, where she truly comes into her own
*Sunday Times Magazine*

A family story full of love and pain and insight
*Herald, Books of the Year*

Impeccably fine … A thoughtful, quietly profound book
*i paper*

The Dutch House offers … A simultaneous awareness of human fragility and human resilience
*Daily Telegraph*

As always, Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life, rather than literature
*Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year*

She uses her signature blend of wry humour, rage and regret in a tale of siblings who cannot escape the shadow of their childhood home
*i*

Masterly
*The Times*

An outstanding novel, wryly funny, heart-breakingly sad and entirely engrossing
*S Magazine*

We’re calling it now: The Dutch House will be the book of the autumn ... Her finest novel yet
*Sunday Times*

Few novelists today combine such a forensic eye with an acute and humane understanding of human nature. I would read Ann Patchett’s shopping list
*Jojo Moyes*

Patchett is a master at pacing and detail … The question of what makes a home pervades this gripping book
*New Statesman*

She rivals Tyler for emotional acuity
*Metro*

Ann Patchett writes novels that quietly and thoroughly devastate the reader – in a good way. Her new novel is no exception
*Red*

Patchett well deserves her reputation for compelling novels, and The Dutch House is her most enthralling yet
*Vogue*

What a spectacular novel. A masterpiece, I’d say
*Cathy Rentzenbrink*

Wise and funny and unwraps the complexities of human beings with heartbreaking tenderness. I love this book
*Renée Knight*

Bliss
*Nigella Lawson*

The buzz around The Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying something
*John Boyne*

If there’s a better, more poignant or involving novel than The Dutch House published this year, I will be very, very surprised
*Andrew Holgate*

A dark modern fairy tale, a delicately woven portrait of a family in flux
*Evening Standard*

The plot is gentle but firm while Patchett’s prose dazzles with detail and nuance, spinning a story that tucks itself inside your heart
*i paper*

Wonderfully astute ... Patchett’s books … have a sly comic undertow
*Mail on Sunday*

A marvellously romantic and evocative novel about the nostalgic pull of a lost home … Beautifully written and often tender … That rare thing: a novel which reveals greater riches on a second reading
*Spectator*

Beautifully imagined … Patchett has excelled herself to produce one of the most moving and engaging novels this year
*Daily Express*

Engrossing … A captivating family saga about injustice and forgiveness
*Daily Mirror*

Gothic and slyly comic, it’s full of smart observations about sibling power struggles
*Mail on Sunday*