The Red House

<p><b>A <i>Washington Post</i> Best Book of the Year<br></b><br>From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i>, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life.<br><br> 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. <i>The Red House</i> 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.</p>