![Red house. Mark Haddon. 2013.](http://browsebooks.com.au/cdn/shop/products/image_4bd52bf3-2c56-4d82-98bb-eceb100ddcb5_{width}x.jpg?v=1671523309)
Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Against the backdrop of a strange family gathering, Haddon skillfully weaves together the stories of eight very different people forced into close quarters. The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly guarded secrets and illicit desires, painting a portrait of contemporary family life that is at once bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.