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    Sep 11, 2019 4 minutes
    Edited by ROWENA MARA

    Family drama

    The Dutch House

    by Ann Patchett , Bloomsbury. Review by Juliet Rieden

    Ann Patchett’s genius is in putting families and their fragile intimacy under the microscope. 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 Andrea, the woman who will become their stepmother. Andrea is taken with the impressive and opulent family home with its overblown portraits of its original Dutch owners and their ancestors. Her own Dutch heritage affords Andrea an ominous ownership

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