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    Sep 11, 2019 4 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    Family drama

    The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, Bloomsbury

    Ann Patchett’s genius is putting families and their fragile intimacy under the microscope, and in The Dutch House this unique author is at the height of her powers with a tale you won’t want to put down.

    The novel opens with eight-year-old Danny Conroy and his sister, Maeve, 15, meeting the woman who will become their stepmother. Mrs Smith is immediately taken with the impressive family home, its size, opulence and the overblown portraits on the wall of its original Dutch owners, the Van Hoebeeks, and their ancestors. Her

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