This book was narrated by Tom Hanks, and Im going to be completely honest, I dont really know who that is. Yet that’s where the relationship between Maeve and Danny deepens, with Maeve valiantly, and entertainingly, stepping in to parent her brother. 4/5: This book was recommended to me to listen to on audio, so me being strange, I actually listened and listened to this right away. From the Publisher 'Ann Patchett spins a dark, compelling fairy tale in The.

(“But when you think about saints,” a family friend later reflects, “I don’t imagine any of them made their families happy.”) Decades later, Danny describes the aftermath of the abandonment this way: “Our childhood was a fire.” As if in a dark fairy tale, the siblings are essentially left to fend for themselves, and when their distracted father meets and marries someone new-a wicked stepmother for the ages-their orphandom is complete. 'The Dutch House is beautifully written and often tender.' The Spectator 'A great novelist is on top form with this tale of lost family home.' The Times (London) 'Subtle mystery, psychological page-turner, Patchetts latest is a thriller.' Washington Post. This means abandoning her daughter, Maeve, who’s 10 going on 30, and her son, Danny, who’s 3. And that balance is critical because The Dutch House, like many of Patchetts novels, delves into and wrenchingly describes the sensitive intricacies of a very. Elna, who’d contemplated becoming a nun before their marriage, despises the finery and eventually leaves Cyril in order to care for the poor in India à la Mother Teresa. It begins in the late 1940s, when Cyril Conroy surprises his wife, Elna, with a glass mansion in the posh Philadelphia neighborhood of Elkins Park. The Dutch House (Harper), Ann Patchett’s masterful eighth novel, is a fierce, intimate, and unstoppably readable saga of family life. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are. 0:00 / 9:32 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Book Review 9,983 views 352 Dislike Share rincey reads 30.7K subscribers Closed Captions cc available Pick up your own copy of The.

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