- Families, Fiction, Domestic fiction
Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join him for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside, which results in a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Mark Haddon
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 345
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Atlas Contact, Nil
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, Dutch, French
- ISBN
- 9780224096416
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Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Tim*e (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
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