The Red House

By: Mark Haddon

Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield

From the best-selling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother comes a superb book about family and secrets.

Two families. Seven days. One house.

Angela and her brother, Richard, have spent 20 years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border.

Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games, and wet walks. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours.

Once again Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, has written a novel that is funny, poignant and deeply insightful about human lives.

©2012 Mark Haddon (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks

Non pretentious, realistic storytelling

The story started a bit bumpy and dull, but as you read on, the portrayal of the characters and their emotions and thoughts seem so real and insightful.