TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patchett,Ann
TI  - The Dutch house
SN  - 9781526614957 (trade paperback)
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury publishing
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Epic fiction
KW  - Brothers and sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Stepmothers
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Families
KW  - Philadelphia (Pa.)
KW  - Family
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames of their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. The siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother's: an absence more powerful than any presence they have known
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